86-year-old farmer Karel Fischer was recovering from a recent stroke when his farm at Morgenzon in Mpumalanga was attacked by a large gang of armed black attackers on Friday night. These ‘black heroes of the ANC-revolution’ tortured the old man and his son Adriaan extensively, demanding the key to the gunsafe – and kept on torturing him even though the sick old farmer was telling the truth: he did not have the key... and when a huge number of farmers showed up, the cowardly gunmen used the old Afrikaner man as a human shield, hiding behind him and dragging him along through the field while fleeing… http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bejaarde-boer-as-menseskild-gebruik-20100904
When a huge numbers of farmers – some sixty members of the farm-watch – responded to the emergency call, the black militia-members took the injured old farmer hostage and dragged him along, using him as a human shield in the fierce gun-fight which followed. His son Adriaan also was shot in both legs and was tortured. Both Fischer men were rushed to a hospital in Louis Trichardt. An unnamed farmer from Brits arrested one of the farm-attackers during the search which followed, shooting the man in the chest and confiscating the weapon in his possession. This arrested gunman now is treated a hospital under police-guard, Willem Pelser of Rapport writes. He took the pictures and wrote the story.
Upon arrival at the homestead, the farm-watch members heard ‘blood-curdling screams’ coming from the farm-hopuse and realised that the old farmer was being tortured, said farmer Corné Nel – first on the scene together with farmer Gideon Joubert. . “The attackers were hiding behind Fischer the entire time while they were fleeing,’ he said. Joubert and two other farmers were forced to stop shooting when they saw that the black men were using the old Afrikaner as a human shield, dragging him along. “They dumped him a long distance from the homestead and fled on foot,’ said Joubert.
The sixty-member Farm Watch group launched an immediate search, following the trail of the attackers. One farmer of Bethal located one of the armed black men in the veldt and the man fired shots towards him – at which point the unnamed farmer shot hm in the chest with his .303 hunting rifle. This farm-attacker now is treated at Bethal hospital under police guard, writes Pelser. The firearm police confiscated from him had been stolen during a house-robbery earlier in Witbank. Secunda SAPS’s organised-crime unit spokesmen said a former farm-worker was also implicated in the attack and they were ‘hot on the trail of the other attackers around Witbank’.
When the commando-members returned to the homestead, they were greeted by a gruesome scene: ‘it really looked like a slaughterhouse, the house was covered in blood, with the injured Adriaan Fischer lying in a puddle of blood. Both men had been extensively tortured. Fischer senior had left the key to the gunsafe in Pretoria however – in a house where he lived while recovering from a recent stroke. Fischer junior said the gunmen ‘didn’t want to believe him and kept bashing him in the face with a pistol, and also breaking his him.’ Adrian Fischer was discharged from hospital after surgery to his legs, however old Mr Fischer is in the intensive-care unit, in critical condition. * Die vuurwapen wat die beseerde rower by hom gehad het, is vroeër in Witbank gesteel.
http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bejaarde-boer-as-menseskild-gebruik-20100904
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