Wife of Mugabe Opponent Brutally Murdered

Maybe the UN will issue a strongly worded letter after reading about this. Though I doubt such an atrocity will wake them from their permanent slumber. Besides, they have more pressing issues they're concerned with, like investigating bogus allegations of "racism" here in the United States.

Anyway, if you haven't eaten breakfast yet, be forewarned.

The wife of a Zimbabwean opposition party member has been brutally murdered in what is being labelled as one the most grotesque atrocities yet committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime.

Dadirai Chipiro, wife of Patson Chipiro who heads the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, had a hand cut off as well as both of her feet before a petrol bomb was thrown through her window.

The three men who pulled up outside her house were looking for her husband, who was in Harare, and left before coming back an hour later to kill her.

Her body was so badly burnt that she was not able to be properly placed in a coffin as her arm was burnt rigid.

Last Friday's killing was carried out as violence worsens in the run-off presidential elections in two weeks time.

It also follows the chilling brutality methods of Sirrra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh, whose trade-mark was to chop off hands and feet.

According to The Times, 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 by Zanu (PF) militiamen.

Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councillor in Harare was killed in a similar attack, which also claimed the life of the councillor six-year-old son.

Meanwhile local MDC supporters gathered around Mr Chipiro’s in a bid to protect him.

Mr Chipiro, 51, arrived back from Harare to find his three brick huts on fire.

“I was trying to put the fire out,” he said. “I thought my wife was hiding in the bushes.”

The Times said his four-year-old nephew, Admire, heard him calling her. “He ran to me. He said, ‘Auntie has been beaten and they threw her in the fire’.”

Just sickening.

Where are the alleged black leaders around the world to condemn this?

Al Sharpton? Silent.

Jesse Jackson? Silent.

Nelson Mandela? Silent.

Kofi Annan? Silent.

Barack Obama? Uhhh, um, silent.

Meanwhile, the Mugabe goon-squad today arrested the MDC secretary general.

Will Jimmy Carter be monitoring the sham run-off election June 27?