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Africa: Subsaharan | |
Police raze war veterans' farms in Bob-land | |
2004-10-18 | |
They were feted by Robert Mugabe as patriots and pioneers in a radical redistribution of land to redress colonial injustice. But the war veterans who ousted white farmers have now themselves been invaded. Last month, police units fanned across Trelawney, a rural district outside the capital, Harare, and erased settlements with matches and mallets. The devastation starts just north of Harare and stretches for mile after mile with hundreds of homes wrecked, fields scorched and families gone, leaving the landscape silent and empty. "Now we are in the position the white farmer was. The authorities used us," Richard Mapuringa, 33, said last week, sifting through the ruins of his house.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#11 Prease, prease. You ah beung mach tooo puhranoyad. We Chinlee ahh oh so peezvull. Onree rissh to herp. (Ignore zhe knyfe in yur bahk. Onree yur eemahgenation) The only reason the Commie Chinese reach their hands around your shoulders is to place the knife squarely in the middle of your back. Past masters of 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'. |
Posted by: Jame Retief 2004-10-18 8:29:29 PM |
#10 Phil F. -- I was thinking more along the lines of "wholly owned subsidiary" to be followed, when the local population succumbs to starvation, AIDS, or death by internecine violence, with "Lebensraum." Red China will soon need to do something drastic about their excess male population, before it brings down the entire society, and the outer provinces of Russia likely won't be enough. Or am I being paranoid? |
Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-18 8:01:50 PM |
#9 Also, more seriously... weren't most of these so-called veterans actually too young to have fought in the revolution against colonial injustice, way back when? Also, consider the following information, posted by Kim Du Toit at http://www.kimdutoit.com/dr/weblog.php?id=P3115:
I can't help but think that in the bad old days, this sort of arrangement would have been called "colonialism." |
Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-10-18 7:08:54 PM |
#8 I thought if you let out the magic smoke, the unit stopped working. |
Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-10-18 6:55:44 PM |
#7 And if the whole unit begins to spew thick black smoke, it becomes a Holy S! meter. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-18 2:16:27 PM |
#6 Yes there is, tu3031. It is a dual scale meter. The surprise meter is on the left and swings at the 9 00 position on the right side. the sympathy meter is at the 300 position and swings to the left. When both meters start acting erratically, then the unit becomes a WTF meter. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-18 2:13:20 PM |
#5 Is there a dual purpose Surprise/Sympathy Meter? |
Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-18 9:08:24 AM |
#4 "They used me! They told me I was a veteran of a war that occurred before I was born," Richard Mapuringa, 33, said last week, sifting through the ruins of his house. |
Posted by: Spot 2004-10-18 9:02:32 AM |
#3 Boofrigginhoo,cry me a river. |
Posted by: raptor 2004-10-18 8:35:46 AM |
#2 The inevitable contest of animals more equal than others. It is so repetitive and inevitable that it lost it intrisic ironic value. Amazing that there are still people willing to believe in utopias. |
Posted by: Memesis 2004-10-18 4:02:48 AM |
#1 al guardian should be cheering this. This is the socialist paradise they have been promising each and evry person in the EU. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-18 3:42:11 AM |