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da sich meine erinnerungen an die siebziger sich eher in Grenzen halten, bin ich in diesem thread wohl falsch... |
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Meine gleichaltrige Cousine in Salisbury/Rhodesien hatte als 12-jährige ihre eigene MPi UZI und zwei Handgranaten, die sie bei sich trug, wenn zur Schule ging. |
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@Alzi:
Ich finde das nicht besonders witzig. Eltern wußten nie, ob sie ihre Kinder nochmal wiedersehen, wenn die morgens zur Schule gingen. Schulbusse waren ein sehr beliebtes Anschlagsziel. Die wurden mit Minen, Raketen und Maschinengewehren beharkt. Und wenn Du Dir überlegst, dass 12-jährige derart bewaffnet sein müssen, um ihren Schulweg zu überleben, finde ich das grausam. Im Film ist das alles nur Requisite und Schweineblut. Im wirklichen Leben leider nicht. |
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On the night of June 23, 1978, Elim Mission in the Rhodesian Eastern Highlands was subjected to the worst massacre of missionaries yet experienced. Terry Blocksidge reported in the Sunday Mail (Salisbury):
Eight British missionaries and four young children - including a three-week-old baby - were bayoneted to death by terrorists on Rhodesia's Eastern border on Friday night in the worst massacre of whites since the six-year-old war began. Three of the missionaries were men and the others women. A sixth woman was stabbed and beaten and left for dead. She staggered 300 m into the freezing Vumba bush to spend the night before being found semi-conscious by security forces yesterday. Despite intensive care in a Salisbury hospital she subsequently died. The gruesome murders, by a group of eight to 10 terrorists, happened at Emmanuel Mission School - 15 km south-east of Umtali and 8 km from the Mozambique border - once used as the Eagle boarding school. The dead, who belonged to the Elim Pentecostal Church, were: * Mr. Peter McCann (30), his wife, Sandra (also 30), son Phillip (six) and daughter Joy (five). * The Rev. Phillip Evans (29), his wife, Suzan (35), and their daughter Rebecca (four). * Mr. Roy Lynn (37), his wife, Joyce (36), and their daughter Pamela Grace. She would have been three weeks old yesterday. * Catherine Picken (55) and Elizabeth Wendy Hamilton- White (37). * Miss Mary Fisher (28). Most of the women had been sexually assaulted, and one mutilated. The children had been dragged from their beds. Two children were in yellow pajamas, one with a red dressing gown, and a third in a flowery nightdress. One child had her tiny thumbs clenched in her palms. Even hardened security men were stunned by the bloody scene and stood around silently. "The quiet is uncanny", said one. Mr. Brian Chapman, director of the Church in Rhodesia and South Africa, visited the scene yesterday. He said: "We saw no humanity here." The massacre began shortly before 8.30 p.m. when the white families were forced by the terrorists from their homes and classrooms, and marched to a playing field. Near the sports pavilion, about 400 m from the main school, they were split into groups, then beaten with lengths of wood and logs, and stabbed. When security forces reached the scene yesterday, the full horror on the cold, mist-and-rain shrouded Vumba mountainside confronted them: A mother, beaten to death, lay with her young baby. The baby had also been savagely beaten. Their arms stretched out to each other, their hands resting an inch apart. The child's hand was clenched. The mother had a hand squeezed tightly around her engagement ring, turned into her palm, as she reached for her baby in her dying moments. Nearby, another woman had died from an axe-wound - the weapon still protruded from her shoulder and two men, one with his hands tied behind his back, lay beaten and slashed to death. A blood-soaked chunk of wood had been dropped near to them. Three children lay in a pitiful huddle, with two women's bodies next to them. Some had raised their arms to defend themselves from the brutal blows. |
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War einfach nur eine Scheißzeit. Seid froh, dass es Euch hier so gut ging. |
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@Alzi:
Wenn man relativ behütet aufgewachsen ist, kann man sich nicht vorstellen, wie das ist, ständig damit rechnen zu müssen, umgebracht zu werden. Mir sind Ballerspiele z.B. deshalb auch heute noch ein Gräuel. [...] Mehr ist hier zu finden: http://home.wanadoo.nl/rhodesia/innocents.html Das waren nur ein paar Sachen, die ich auf die Schnelle dazu gefunden habe. Sowas spielte sich überall ab, Du konntest nicht wissen, ob Du nicht der nächste sein würdest. War einfach nur eine Scheißzeit. Seid froh, dass es Euch hier so gut ging. |
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Wie Birger eigentlich auch... |
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