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- Injuries sustained by Ben Freeth, Mike Campbell and Angela Campbell
in Chegutu
June
30, 2008
Read the Daily
Telegraph article about this attack here
Read the rough
transcript of an interview with Ben Freeth and Angela Campbell here
Zimbabwean farmers Mike
Cambell (75), his wife Angela (66) and their son-in-law, Ben Freeth
of Mount Carmel Farm in the Chegutu district, were abducted from
their farm at gunpoint by "war veterans" on the night
of Sunday 29 June 2008 and viciously beaten before being dumped
at a house in the neighbouring town of Kadoma.
The motivation for this brutal attack is that Mike and Ben are the
architects of - and at the forefront of - Southern African Development
Community (SADC) Tribunal litigation which provides them with total
SADC interim ruling protection.
Fourteen farmers in the Chegutu/Kadoma farming community spearheaded
the joinder applications with the Campbell Mount Carmel farm case
in SADC. The area is being targeted as a direct result of this important
and benchmark international litigation. Seventy-seven farmers country-wide
fall under the SADC interim ruling protection.
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| Mike
Campbell, 75, was beaten on his back and feet. He suffered a
serious concussion, and a broken collarbone and fingers. |
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| Angela
Campbell, 66, had burning sticks put in her mouth and was left
with a broken upper arm and bruising. |
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| Ben
Freeth was beaten for over seven hours. |
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