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Henrich
Please read carefully and realize what is going on here!!! Please tell
the world what's happening.
STATEMENT MADE BY WILLIAM BRUCE ROGERS AND ANNETTE MARY ROGERS
7th May, 2008.
On the day of the 6th May, 2008 at approximately 1300 hours I was
visited by three men at our farm, Chigwell Extension Farm.
They told me that I had two minutes to vacate my property otherwise
they will send the mob there and the house is not worth sacrificing
my life for. Because we would lose our lives. They said they were
like hungry lions.
My wife made a report to the Chegutu Police Station about this
incident, naming the people involved. At that stage I asked them if
they would react to any incident that my occur and they informed my
wife that they would speak to the Assistant Inspector. My wife also
saw him before making the report and informed him of the visit and he
told her to go and make a report at the charge office.
At about 1700 hours on the same day a vehicle - a white Datsun 1800
pickup arrived at the gate with approximately 10-12 people. They
demanded that I opened the gate because they wanted to talk to me. I
refused and went into the house together with my wife. We locked
ourselves into the house. They came to the house and wanted me to go
outside to speak to them which I refused to do. They started
smashing windows and the front door was smashed open. One of them
pointed a single barrel shotgun inside the house at us - we were by
then upstairs. He fired a shot directly at us which went just over
my head and close to my wifes' head. He obviously intended to kill
us. After he fired the shot he went out and it went quiet for a
while and then we heard three shots coming from the workers housing
area. They returned with all the workers and fired another shot
whilst outside.
I managed to get through to the Assistant Inspector and the Chegutu
Police Station to ask for assistance before there were dead bodies in
the house. He said that I must phone him back in half and hour.
Throughout all of this my wife was on the phone to numerous friends
who were at the Chegutu Police Station trying to get assistance from
them with absolutely no result whatsoever. My wife and I also made
many phone calls to the Member in Charge on his cell phone and he
refused to answer.
By this time it was dark and the power went off so we were left
completely in darkness and unable to identify our own employees. They
then used the workers as a shield so that they could all come inside
the house and then were downstairs chanting and singing and making
threats.
They sent one of the workers upstairs to demand the shotgun from me
to take back to them. I refused and this employee stayed upstairs
with us. They then grabbed the son of this employee who was
downstairs and from what I could gather they threatened to either kill
or injure him if he didn't go back downstairs with the weapon. He
went back downstairs without the weapon. After about five minutes
they told all the singing workers to go upstairs using them as a
shield once more. We tried to identify the workers one by one as
they came up the stairs, as my wife was standing at the top of the
stairs with a can of mace. After about 15 workers came through, she
could not identify a person and used the mace and sprayed them.
After this they ran back downstairs and out of the house.
This incensed the thugs who then proceeded to break down the back
door and started a building a fire in the downstairs lounge directly
below us. As we have a wooden floor upstairs this posed a great
threat and we thought we would be burnt alive which is when I said
that we would come out and asked if they would let us leave
peacefully which they agreed to do. We asked the ring-leader to
identify himself. We came downstairs and they demanded the shotgun
from me which was loaded and off safety and I refused. They then
insisted that I give it to them and I tried to start unloading it and
they attacked me. They then grabbed my wife around the throat and she
started screaming. While they were trying to take the shotgun from
me three shots went off outside the house into the ground as it is a
semi-automatic shotgun. They then took the shotgun from me and
wrestled me to the ground and started beating me with what I assume
was sticks, or pipes and kicking me with their boots. They dragged my
wife outside and they were trying to strangle her. At this stage she
managed to bite the hand of the man who was grabbing her round the
throat. Whereupon he started to beat her. At one time there were at
least four men beating and kicking her.
They then tied me up with rope and threw me into the back of their
pickup. At this stage my wife was still being beaten. When they had
finished beating her, one of them grabbed her by her feet and dragged
her over to the vehicle. They then demanded that she stand up and
get into the back of the truck which she was unable to do. One of
them grabbed her by the hair, pulled her into a standing position and
pushed her up against the back of the truck and told her to get in.
She did climb in. They searched my wife and found the car-keys in her
pocket and demanded she show them what vehicle the keys were for.
They couldn't find the keys to the other truck. They drove my vehicle
onto the lawn, parked near the truck where I was tied up. The
immobiliser for the vehicle went off. They demanded that my wife show
them where the immobiliser switch was situated which she did do. One
of them drove off with the vehicle which we never saw again. They
still had all the employees on the lawn around a fire that had been
lit by the front door and they were still forced to sing.
There were about four or five of them around the vehicle watching the
two of us, all the time they were shouting verbal abuse and racist
comments and threatening to kill either one or both of us and also
stating the manner in which they should kill us. This must have gone
on for almost an hour. They were burning my feet with cigarettes and
then we saw vehicle lights shining towards us and then my wife was
told to get out of the vehicle and was dragged towards the headlights
of the vehicle that had arrived. When she got to the vehicle she saw
there were four armed policeman from Kadoma Police Station who asked
what had happened. She told them briefly what had happened and
demanded that they fetch me immediately from the vehicle as she feared
for my life. One of the thugs came and untied me and told me to get
out of the vehicle and made me walk towards the headlights of the
parked vehicle. I noticed that they were armed policeman. The
incident was described in more detail to them and they accompanied us
into the house to get some warm clothing. Once we were in the house
we saw that the gun cabinet had been opened and ransacked and that my
weapons were missing. I informed the police that the weapons were
missing. They then took us out of the house and told us to get in
their vehicle as we were going to Chegutu Police Station to make a
report.
We got to Chegutu Police Station and they had to call some superior
officer to take a statement and he only arrived as were were leaving
to go to Harare to get urgent medical attention. No police personal
of any authority seemed to show any interest in taking our statement.
We were attended to by medical staff at the Avenues Clinic where
numerous x-rays and CT scans were taken. My injuries are two cracked
verterbrae in my lower back. Fractured cheekbone, fractured nose
there was copious bleeding into my sinuses and extensive lacerations
and deep-tissue bruising to my face and back and a bite to my right
earlobe.
My wifes injuries are fractured cheekbones, fractures around her
orbital socket round her eye, perforated eardrum, cracked ribs and
extensive bruising to her face and back and throat.
W.B. ROGERS ...............................................
A.M. ROGERS...........................
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