There are times when no amount of words can do justice, or give any depth of meaning to the level of shame and tragedy within a particular event...
Imagine living in a country where placing your 'X' in the 'wrong' box, is as good as sigining your own death warrant...
'The Times'
June 12, 2008
Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent’s wife alive
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...
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