Boetie
5/07/2008 20:27:49
IP: 24.206.230.64 | RE: Mugabe held at gunpoint
Message: Excerpt from the Article:
QUESTION: As somebody who is native to Zimbabwe, who joined the war for liberation, who was among those celebrating independence of Zimbabwe, is the way things have turned out today surprising to you? Could you have imagined this in 1981?
ANSWER: I could have, yes, especially because I was in the countryside at the height of the war in 1977-78. And I saw, you realised, you know, [guerrillas] murdering people. They used either to say you are a sell-out, or you are a witch, and then they would get villagers and say okay get sticks and bash their heads. Or just take bayonets and kill...
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