-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Zimbabwe's reign of terror State-sanctioned violence spreads to nation's capital ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Editor's note: For over a year, WorldNetDaily international correspondent Anthony C. LoBaido has documented the race-based atrocities of Zimbabwe's Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe. In this chilling, two-part follow-up, LoBaido details how Mugabe's extermination of white farmers has led to a new assault on white-owned businesses in the capital of Harare. By Anthony C. LoBaido © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In textbook Marxist fashion, Zimbabwe's dictator, President Robert Mugabe, over the last year, has systematically sought to erase white, European economic, social and cultural influence in his troubled nation, sending his armed thugs, or "war veterans," to white-owned farms to intimidate and even murder the European farmers. Today, Mugabe's cleansing has expanded from the rural areas into the nation's capital city, Harare. Lorraine Alexander, a businesswoman and native of Zimbabwe had her website shut down by the ZANU-PF, Mugabe's ruling party. The website had detailed the atrocities committed by the Mugabe regime. In an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily, Alexander explained the recent turn of events inside her country. "The last few weeks has seen an increase in the bashings being meted out by the war vets against whites in the towns, especially here in Harare. I had reported previously on beatings at Design Inc. and other firms. Staff members have told me that there are small gangs of war veterans roaming the industrial areas and the city center, inquiring of staff if they are having a dispute with management at their companies, or if they feel management is unfairly treating them. If the employees reply in the positive, the war vets then bring a crowd and proceed to beat management. In most cases of this sort, the management is taken to ZANU-PF headquarters, where they are interrogated and beaten, and then forced to reinstate the workers or pay out huge sums to them," said Alexander. Harare, capital of Zimbabwe "Joseph Chinotimba, one of the war vet leaders, seems to be the organizer of this action. He, incidentally, is awaiting his trial for shooting a woman. All of this concerns me -- an employee of ours was fired for theft two weeks ago and reported us to ZANU-PF last week. He actually had the gall to come into work and tell one of our managers that he had done this and that we were to expect the war vets. It was quite a shock to all of us, and the managers who were involved in dismissing this particular employee are very worried. We waited, but as yet, there are no signs of the war vets. Are they going to come? I don't know. I had thought they seemed to be interfering only in cases where there were a large number of dismissals or labor disputes." Alexander said that the manager of Mbizi Lodge, Mervin Senior, and his wife, Barbara, were victims of the war vets last week. Mbizi Lodge is about a 10-minute drive from the Harare Airport. "We have spent a weekend there as a family and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Seniors are lovely people. They were both abducted from the lodge on Saturday and beaten up by ZANU-PF members, following a labor dispute with some of their employees. They were held for four hours at ZANU-PF headquarters, where they were thrown into a cellar after being pummeled all over," she told WorldNetDaily. "In another case last week, war vets beat lawyer and businessman Tinofara Hove with an iron bar. They also beat the four policemen who were accompanying Hove. They accused him of hiding a Pakistani businessman, Imran Chaudry, who has fled the country in fear of the war veterans. "At Clan Holdings, another big company here in Harare, war vets arrived in two trucks on Thursday. They spread themselves throughout the premises, including the offices. Wally Hammond, one of the managers, and an unnamed employee were taken to ZANU-PF H.Q. Wally returned after a few hours with an eye injury and bruises on his face and neck. His clothing showed that he had been roughed up," Alexander said. Asked why the Zimbabwean police would not uphold the law, Alexander said, "The police will not get involved at all, even when called. They say these matters are political and have nothing to do with them. I am actually very worried -- not just for myself, but for all of us here. The violence has escalated in the last few weeks, and seems to be getting worse. I cannot believe all that is happening. What are we doing here? I am beginning to think that we are fooling ourselves by thinking that things will improve. How can I possibly manage the company I work for effectively when I am constantly looking over my shoulder for war vets or treading very cautiously with staff in case one of them should report us to ZANU-PF? It is impossible." Said Kent Graman, a Zimbabwean businessman who has fled to the UK, "The problem of blacks killing whites is not [exclusive] to Zimbabwe. It has spread to South Africa, Kenya and even to the U.S. Americans may well recall the recent riots in Seattle and Cincinnati, where blacks specifically targeted whites with violence and even murder -- yet the local police, fearing the politically correct jihad, did nothing." Geoff Cook, a former intelligence officer who fought in the Rhodesian Bush War, told WorldNetDaily that he feared for the future of his children who still live in Zimbabwe. Mr. Cook and his wife, Jean, live in the UK. "My daughter-in-law is ready to leave, but my son is sitting on the fence. I hope he makes up his mind soon. … Generally, from what we can see, things are getting steadily worse, and the gangs are now going into business in Harare and demanding money and taking the owners to the ZANU-PF headquarters, where they are beaten," Mr. Cook told WorldNetDaily. Other Zimbabweans have not been so lucky. For example, WorldNetDaily has learned of two white Zimbabwean citizens who were desperately trying to get out of the country. Although they had European passports, their children did not, and now they are seeking sponsorship for themselves and dozens of other families fleeing the horror. So far, their appeals to Dutch and Anglican churches have been unanswered. The massacre of whites in Zimbabwe has thus far escaped the attention of the U.S. State Department. Zimbabweans and Rhodesian expatriates in the UK told WND they were disappointed that American policy bigwigs like National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell had been silent on the issue. "Imagine if it was whites killing blacks or people of the Jewish faith," said Graman. "There would be a huge outcry. Why is it that blacks can kill whites with impunity these days? The State Department must freeze all of Mugabe's overseas assets. The Conservative Party in the UK must also take action immediately -- but I won't hold my breath." As WorldNetDaily previously reported, Mugabe is protected by a vast array of powerful, white British businessmen who manage Mugabe's vast investment portfolio. Mugabe's overseas assets have been traced to the Isle of Man and the Bahamas. Maria Stevens, a Swedish widow whose husband was one of the white Zimbabwean farmers murdered by Mugabe's henchmen, has filed a lawsuit in New York City to have the dictator's assets seized by the U.S. government. A few months ago, however, when Mugabe addressed a gathering at the United Nations, he was met with cheers when he stood by the farm massacres. "Whites are too weak and disorganized to offer any resistance to Mugabe right now," added Graman. "There is an international, Marxist and socialist left wing. Where is the right wing?" One development of late in Zimbabwe was the launching by the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust, or ZDT, of the world's leading website on Zimbabwe: www.zwnews.com. The new site -- an amalgamation of many different websites on Zimbabwe -- was built to assist the Trust's efforts in restoring democracy and the rule of law to Zimbabwe. The site will provide extensive news coverage, as well as pertinent information on all major issues currently facing Zimbabwe and its people. It will also carry regular exclusive stories commissioned from local Zimbabwean journalists on the ground. "In creating www.zwnews.com, we hope to provide all those people concerned with the current crisis unfolding in Zimbabwe with a broad, accurate and extensive information bank. This site will cater to governments, NGOs, students, journalists, businessmen, as well as ordinary individuals wanting to keep up to date with what is taking place in the country," said a press release issued by ZDT. "One day, when everything has settled down in Zimbabwe and the rule of law has returned, www.zwnews.com will be seen as the world's leading archive on reference material about Zimbabwe; it has been created with this very much in mind. The people committing these crimes in Zimbabwe today must one day be accountable; www.zwnews.com will have all the evidence that is needed to eventually bring them to book," said a spokesperson for the Trust. Zimbabweans WND interviewed all told similar tales of the reign of terror unleashed by Mugabe. Said Rachel Johnston, "I am a 50-year-old wife, mother and grandmother living in an African country -- Zimbabwe. I am a Christian. I am white, which shouldn't make a difference, but does. I consider myself to be intelligent, articulate and an eternal optimist, but lately my optimism has been sorely tested." "I have witnessed, first and second hand in the last 18 months, the most horrifying set of events. They started as a build-up to our General Elections in June of 2000 and continue as we face the presidential elections scheduled to take place in April 2002. I have watched in growing disbelief as an ongoing horror story of murder, abuse and intimidation has evolved, the likes of which I had never imagined I would ever see. Day after day, I have said to myself, 'This can't be happening. Somebody, somewhere, will intervene and stop this madness.' But, guess what? There has been no intervention; nothing but words and slaps on the hand. "Zimbabwe is on the brink of anarchy and economic collapse. We have no fuel, no foreign currency for imports, an unemployment level of over 60 percent, looming food shortages, war veterans (remnants of the war between the Zimbabwe Liberation Forces and Ian Smith's Rhodesian Forces) who, in the last 15 months, have murdered, raped and pillaged their way across the country, invading farms owned by whites and claiming them as their own. "We have a president who openly flouts the rule of law, gets rid of any member of the judiciary who would oppose him and publicly condones and openly encourages racism. "We have a ruling party that would completely suppress freedom of speech and association and has made its intentions plain to all local and foreign journalists who would report the truth of our situation. "We have an opposition party -- the first serious opposition to our president's reign in 20 years -- that has been literally fighting for its life in the last year and a half. Our president claims that this party is financed by the white minority in a bid to usurp his position and reclaim the country for the whites. Its members have been killed, tortured. … Individuals have had their buttocks burned on open fires … until they renounced their allegiance to the opposition. "We have a police force that stands by and watches as acts of intimidation and atrocities are committed. They claim these acts are political and therefore they cannot intervene, even when told to do so by the highest court in the land. We have corruption, the likes of which exceeds even the most corrupt nation in Africa. "We have, in the last month, witnessed the war veterans invading businesses around the country, claiming to be settling labor disputes. They are kidnapping and beating management, and extorting huge sums of money, which is distributed among workers (after the vets take their commission). "We have a minister of information who is being sued for embezzling hundred of thousands of dollars of donor funding and other ministers who are up on charges for any number of offenses. All of this with full blessing and encouragement of the president and his cronies. Asked why she does not leave Zimbabwe, Johnston told WorldNetDaily, "What am I doing here? Why do I continue to stay here? It's my home. … It's as simple as that! Why would I not be here? Where would I go? I am at home. I have lived here all of my life. I went to school here, married and had children, grandchildren. 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