'The Men Were Given Sticks and Told to Beat Each Other'
Evening Standard - London › June 23, 2008
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HE WAS a British soldier who arrived in Zimbabwe to help train its army. He fell in love, married farmer's daughter Laura and had three children Joshua, Stephen and Anna. Now the family live in fear.
They are among the last white families still on their land in Zimbabwe, where only one in 10 of the original 5,000 remain. Here Ben Freeth tells of the violence, intimidation and night-time terror which are part and parcel of Mugabe's campaign..See the full content of this document
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'The Men Were Given Sticks and Told to Beat Each Other'
ON Saturday night the radio sprang to life in the kitchen. It was my father-in-law. "There's a chanting mob outside the packhouse," he said. My hear...
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