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The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window.

The killing last Friday – one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime since independence in 1980 – was carried out on a wave of worsening brutality before the run-off presidential elections in just over two weeks. It echoed the activities of Foday Sankoh, the rebel leader in the Sierra Leone civil war that ended in 2002, whose trade-mark was to chop off hands and feet.

Mrs Chipiro, 45, a former pre-school teacher, was the second wife of a junior official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) burnt alive last Friday by Zanu (PF) militiamen. Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councillor in Harare, did not suffer mutilation but died later of her burns; his six-year-old son perished in the flames.
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48 responses // Mugabe's militia burn opponent’s wife alive

  • Another candidate for the Hague.
    JanforGore
  • I am truly disturbed by what is going on there. The worst is that our president, Mr Mbeki, doesn't seem to want to do anything. Honestly, what will it take for him to take notice.
    hannesc
  • This is sickening. How can we be self righteous and claim to take down cruel dictators, yet our president ignores such an obvious dictator?
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    PoisonTheMonkey
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  • that is so fucked up.

    I gotta stop reading news.
    stephenthomson
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  • This is fucking outrageous. I feel like this world has reached an age where the majority of the people no longer believe that protest and awareness can accomplish anything.

    God this is fucking horrible, I can't express myself properly.
    AnemicElitist
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  • I bet you almost eighty percent of Americans don't even know who Mugabe is. It's amazing how powerless these events can make you feel, when the opposition seems all powerful.
    Nuevarine
  • That sickening story makes Hitler appear humane.
    cerealforeal
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  • I wouldn't worry about this guy much longer. After failing to gain regional support (Chinese arms cargo deal) and his recent meetings with Qibla and PAGAD, it won't be long before his captors find him hiding in his spider hole. Or they may even find him fighting to the end with his fab 4 - Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, the country's overall military chief. With him were Augustine Chihuri, the Zimbabwe chief of police; Gen. Paradzai Zimondi, head of the prison service, and the fourth member was Air Marshal Perence Shiri, the commander of the country's air force. (Thomas, 2008)
    Kylsport
  • What people would do to stay in power.
    tanyetta
  • Mugabe is a modern day Hitler. He is an awful, awful man. This sickens me.
    benjaminV
  • watch this comment being used here
    The UN should have never let Mugabe set a single foot on their territory without directly arresting him, as they did last week.
    yonie
  • This is a sickening story. To think mankind has devolved into this kind of activety is incredible. When will people stop killing each other and show an enlightened mankind? I pray for the innocent people caught in the middle of this kind of outrageous behavior,
    Robroy1
  • The UN need to enforce civilized behaviour upon Mugabe and his afilliates - for someone who has been in power for a lengthy amount of time, they should be aware that there is a standard way to carry themselves, for the good of the country and its people. Right now the barbaric behaviour does not represent adequate or uplifting leadership.
    Skyscraper08
  • One hand? Why not both? I would rather both my hands be chopped off than have one. I'd look at that in the final moments of my life with what the hell can I do with this?

    It is moments like this that would have me say sarcastic or silly things should this happen to me.

    "Why did you leave me with this? You want me to have a chance to kill you should I wobble out of that fire house? You got it mister!"

    You stop watching the news you become indifferent and apathetic and that's just as bad as a President of any country allowing this to go on.

    But I don't think America should be blamed for not stopping it. There are lots of other countries that have power to that could stop things and they don't because the blame will surely fall, as always and frequently and unreasonably, upon America.
    J_Jammer
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  • Why is it that our government props up monsters such as Mugabe and the Saudi family? We all know that the CIA could eliminate Mugabe any day of the week. Yet we let millions suffer.

    We have no problems with huge numbers of innocent "collateral" deaths in Iraq but we will not get rid of the butchers. Oh! I forgot, the butchers are "pro American" or so they say.

    In America the white churches have found "right to life" as a focus issue that brings in huge amounts of donations. At the same time the RTL people turn a blind eye to the suffering of the elderly and early mortality whitin our minority populations.

    We are a strange society. We surround ourselves with 270 military bases that circle the earth. We use horrible weapons on supposed "enemies" that kill and maim hundreds of thousands around the world each year. We support numerous butcherous dictators while we ban other societies such as Cuba. Where ever the US goes it brings along death and suffering. We are a blood thirsty nation, constantly at war, somewhere, and always the killing of the innocent and the support of butchers.
    geneonlbk
  • How Hypocritical. While Bush is loving up the E.U., and way to busy taking advantage of a nation in peril, he simply turns his head to Zimbabwe. This proves America isn't justice, but rather a conspiracy to mankind!!!
    Bastard_of_Brooklyn
  • That is so impossibly messed up :(
    milkradio
  • watch this comment being used here, here and here
    I will live to see him hanged. For crimes against humanity.
    hyperbrand
  • This story made my heart hurt. I don't understand why people do such things.
    Swiyyah
  • And yet, as there is no expoitable oil in this country, Mugabe proceeds unfettered and the U.S., which claims to protect innocent civilians (yeah, I'm lauging my butt off right now), won't do a thing about this.

    Mugabe is easily as horrible as Hussain but Hussain's country has oil, as do the countries surrounding it. Getting rid of him was essential to protecting oil and keeping the per-barrel cost at $20 USD... Oh. Wait... that didn't happen either. Maybe that was just Rupert Murdoch running his mouth...

    Anyway, As long as the rest of the world has no economic interest in Mugabe's country's holdings, naught will happen to him.
    WriterWriter
  • Hmm.... what exactly is the UN going to do about this? My guess, a little on the nothing side.
    slicedbread
  • So absolutely terrible to allow him to continue his reign of terror. Where is Bush's army of freedom now? That's irrelevant, though. The entire world should be banding against him and his reckless campaign.
    Elligirl
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  • I can see Presidential candidate McBush doing roughly the same thing if it were socially acceptable here.
    Gephoria
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  • this is the most offensive thing i have read wqe claim to champion right and decensy (one day i will learn to spell)
    but we should quit Diplomacy and take him out burn him
    down i would volunteer my limted services twos wrongs don't make a right but it would this is atrocious no one should have to live like this all the wasted diplomatic moves are just that that sounds like that boondogle the
    united nations is running the show
    charleskaj
  • well , they didn't rape her before cutting her up and burning her alive , so i suppose she suffered a bit less than lots of Mugabe's victims.
    malathion
  • What malathion just said is actually true, even though I'm still sickened with my eyes watering just a bit, that did help a LITTLE, but still, sickening and it annoys me how many more people he's done this and worse to, I just don't get it, many countries were after saddam Husain for massicares of cruelty, but why not this man? He's just as bad surely.
    steadward
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  • a truly despicable and miserable individual and legacy. there is no amount of vindication for the people who have suffered under his regime from the poorest sharecropper to the welathiest landowner. the members of the UN sure do love those expensive dinners and perks though.
    ultrasur1
  • Mugabe must be a relative from Saddam Hussein.


    Obama should go to Zimbabwe, talk to Mubage and show us what he could do as president to solve this kind of problem.

    That would be good
    soleil10
  • sick sick bastards! If the US feels the need to meddle in world affairs so much...how can we (USA) sit idle and hear/watch such atrocities?

    Is there not a mercenary with a soulless-heart that feels like hunting this jerk (Mugabe) just for sport?

    i think if we all check the sofa we can raise the money needed for travel, bullets and camo...who's in?
    steel_monkey
  • THIS SHIT IS FUCKED UP im down steel fcuk this "terrorist"
    clayjj05
  • Why is it that when America does good we don't get thanks, yet when we do nothing we are accused of letting people die? There are over 250 other countries out there with guns who can stop this guy. All you liberal hippies need to stop and think before you rank on America.
    TomBaker
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  • These atrocities are carried out by the Mugabe regime under a well thought plan and the aim is to instil a fear in the opposition ranks so that no one turns out for polling and allow Mugabe to secure an easy win.
    khan26
  • Zimbabwe was a British colony prior to independence. It would seem reasonable that the first response should come from the U.K. rather than the U.S.
    MoonLoon
  • One other comment. If Zimbabwe had been ignorant enough to attack U.S. interests, as the Muslims did, Bush could easily justify stepping in and stopping this idiot. But as long as Zim stays within their borders, why should the U.S. intervene. Complain to the U.N. I am sure that you will get a sympathetic response from this bunch of cowards.
    MoonLoon
  • "Mugabe", man of the people, icon of African democracy, praised be his name throughout Africa!

    Insane fool destroying his people!
    MoonLoon