[Those landmines were planted to keep Mugabe’s Terrorists out of Rhodesia. Glad to see they’re still around. I’m glad they blew up a black guy rather than an elephant… because of the extreme cruelty that blacks exhibit to animals all the time. Imagine an elephant which might have one of its legs blown off… and eventually it dies. Elephants and other fine creatures are killed horrifically by blacks all the time – especially now in Zimbabwe. Sometimes their trunks are half cut off from wire snares, etc… and creatures die slow, terrible, cruel deaths. Black cruelty to animals is legendary, and in this case, I think justice was done. For more graphic and horrific pictures… see the photos on my website. Jan]

A villager in northeastern Zimbabwe was killed when five landmines he dug up to use against marauding elephants exploded in his arms, news reports said on Wednesday.

Christian Munetsi had planned to use the mines to protect his maize field from elephants that roam the remote Rushinga district, local police official Michael Munyikwa told state-run media.

Anti-personnel and vehicle mines were strewn along Zimbabwe’s northeastern border with Mozambique during the seven-year bush war that led to independence from Britain in 1980. Some have since been exposed by seasonal rains, making the area “extremely dangerous,” Munyikwa said.

Earlier this month, police reported two other people injured by landmines in the region.

Military engineers have been deployed in the area to warn villagers against handling any exposed mines.

Zimbabwe’s former white rulers placed mine fields along the borders with Mozambique and Zambia in a bid to prevent black guerrilla fighters from infiltrating their homeland.

Attempts to clear the fields have met with little success because of shifting soil along river banks and a shortage of money and equipment to sweep remote areas. – Sapa-AP

Source: Daily Mail & Guardian
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