ZIMBABWE: WHITE FARMER WHO WAS BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS BY WAR VETERANS ON HIS FARM OUTSIDE HARARE DIES

Record ID: 860826

  • Title: ZIMBABWE: WHITE FARMER WHO WAS BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS BY WAR VETERANS ON HIS FARM OUTSIDE HARARE DIES
  • Date: 7th May 2000
  • Summary: HARARE, ZIMBABWE (MAY 7, 2000) (REUTERS) LV HOSPITAL CORRIDOR PAN AVENUES CLINIC AND NAME OF TRAUMA ENTRANCE CU/SLV PEOPLE COMFORTING WIFE OF FARMER BEATEN BY VETERANS (2 SHOTS) SLV A PATIENT BEING PUSHED SLV PEOPLE WAITING IN CORRIDOR SV FRIEND ON MOBILE PHONE WIDE OF PERSON AND WATSON SMITH, A NEIGHBOUR MV MORE FRIENDS TALKING IN A CORRIDOR SV SOUNDBITE, (ENGLISH) WATSON SMITH, NEIGHBOUR: "Well he is a farmer in the Beatrice area and he was attacked this afternoon by a group of war veterans and he was beaten severely and left for dead." SV WIFE CRYING SV SOUNDBITE (English) SMITH: "I guess that this is the agenda. There is a serious campaign against anyone who is percieved to oppose the goverment, and I presume that Alan Dunn was perceived to oppose the government." MV NURSES IN HOSPITAL SCU WIFE CRYING MV/SLV PEOPLE COMFORTING WIFE (2 SHOTS) SV WIFE BEING PATTED ON THE BACK SV WIFE CRYING BV WIFE AND FRIENDS GOING TO SEE HUSBAND IN INTENSIVE CARE
  • Embargoed: 22nd May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: HARARE, ZIMBABWE
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  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Topics: Crime,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5CS8J72QJEBLFEPB47HLDTDN1
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  • Story Text: In Zimbabwe, a white farmer who was was beaten unconscious by war veterans on his farm outside the capital Harare has died.
    Alan Dunn was taken to The Avenue Clinc in Harare on Sunday (May 7). His wife and friends waited anxiously for news of his condition.
    Neighbour Watson Smith described what happened. He said: "He is a farmer in the Beatrice area, and he was attacked this afternoon by a group of war veterans, and he was beaten severely and left for dead."
    "I guess that this is the agenda. There is a serious campaign against anyone who is percieved to oppose the goverment, and I presume that Alan Dunn was percieved to oppose the government," Smith said.
    Police said Dunn had been assaulted on Sunday on his farm, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) south-west of the capital Harare, during a confrontation with people believed to be war veterans.
    Dunn was the first white farmer to be attacked in nearly two weeks and the third to die in the nearly three-month-old land reform crisis.
    At least 19 people have died in political violence since black veterans of the 1970s liberation war against white-ruled Rhodesia invaded hundreds of white-owned farms, demanding land they say was stolen during the British colonial era.
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