Don Pengelly
Secret Genocide : Protest On Grassy Knoll
Tue Feb 17 14:00:49 2004
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Grassy Knoll , Dallas site of March 27 protest against South Africa's 'secret genocide'

February 17, 2004 - ALEDO, TEXAS, USA. There's not a more famous site in the whole world than the Grassy Knoll in Dallas near the spot where America's charismatic president John F Kennedy was assassinated.

And that's why Texan bow-hunter Don Pengelly, 49, (pictured here: telephone number USA 817-925-9150, email DLPENGELLY@aol.com ) of Aledo has decided to hold a protest campaign from 10am at the Grassy Knoll on March 27 to highlight what he calls the secret genocide in South Africa. He's already generating considerable interest from South Africans in Texas who want to join the protest campaign that day.

Also backing his campaign is Mel Sloan, an American big-game farmer/investor (email Tacomama@aol.com , Phone number is (505) 867-8640 , who has invested some $4-million in his South African venture over the past three years.

Sloan has also lodged a formal complaint about the South African farm attack epidemic with the American embassy's councillor for foreign affairs in South Africa, Mrs Gayleatha B Brown - warning that American investors are not being sufficiently warned by the US administration about the personal and financial dangers inherent in investing in South Africa. "South Africa is going to lose considerable investment if people like me don't feel safe," Sloan warned the US embassy in his letter.

He and Pengelly are both also demanding an urgent high-level US Congressional investigation into these farm attacks.

Pengelly came back from his latest South African hunting trip with a Texas-sized determination to inform Americans about these young, heavily armed militia groups which have been terrorising the South African countryside for the past decade -- and during which more than 1,617 farmers, farm workers and their kin have already been brutally murdered, mutilated and also very often raped in more than 10,000 armed attacks by well-organised African male militias since 1991.
Click here for the 2003 South African Police report: http://www.saps.gov.za/farmat/index.htm
Click here for the Genocide Watch warning of the secret SA genocide: http://www.genocidewatch.org/BoersSlain01.htm
Pengelly and Sloan were shaken by the personal experience of one such exceedingly cruel farm attack during Pengelly's latest hunting trip to Limpopo, South Africa, when a frail Afrikaner farm woman, Rina du PLessis, 74, was murdered on November 25 last year on the neighbouring farm, only 5km from their Genoa Farm hunting lodge.

(details of Du Plessis murder on the Crime Busters of South Africa website:

http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/farmattacks.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=2164&LastModified=4675457072749104292
Mrs Du Plessis, a frail emphysemia sufferer, was bludgeoned to death on her Melborn farm near the Botswana border. Her gentle husband "Uncle Dup" also was badly traumatised and injured. Two young African men - not previously known to the couple -- have since been captured for the murder and police are still searching for more accomplices. Pengelly says that what makes this attack even more meaningless besides the extreme violence was that only one dollar was "robbed" -- but none of the other valuables in the homestead were even touched...

A blood trail at the scene showed that the unarmed, defenceless white woman had been assaulted, tied up and dragged into a barn before she was brutally beaten to death. The old, devoutly Christian Afrikaner couple lived peacefully on their retirement wildlife farm - near the Groblersbrug-border post with neighbouring Botswana and did not know any of their attackers beforehand.

The two suspects arrested thus far, both African males in their twenties (and whose permanent homes are near Pretoria, many hundreds of miles away from the attacked farm), have appeared in a local magistrate's court for the murder. They have pleaded not guilty and were granted bail. Their trial won't take place for at least another year.

Nobody will probably ever know why these young men travelled many hundreds of miles to attack this specific farm along the Botswana border in order to steal only one dollar's worth of South African money...

What shook Pengelly most of all about this murder, he said (telephone number USA 817-925-9150) besides the intensive ferocity and cruelty shown against this old couple, was that in spite of his many previous hunting trips to South Africa, he had never seen anything about these farm murders in the American news media at all.

He then discovered to his shock that at least 1,617 South African farmers had already been murdered in this way since 1991.

He was amazed, unable to understand why the American news media has kept so quiet about it, especially because of the high publicity value given to the six farmers murdered thus far in neighbouring Zimbabwe over the past three years.

Pengelly says after this attack on the Du Plessis farm, he became so keenly aware of the dangers stalking the South African countryside that he slept with his gun besides him every night thereafter until he returned home.

Not scared away from hunting in SA:
The experience won't however, stop him from going hunting in South Africa again -- he will just be much, much more security-conscious than before, he said.

Picture: During his last trip, he had bagged a Wildebeest and a warthog with his Mathews bow and said it remains a uniquely moving experience to eat that tasty barbequed wildlife meat seated around an African wood-campfire with the spectacle of millions of stars blazing overhead.

American investor warns of dangers:
Mel Sloan, an American game farmer who has invested some $4-million in his South African venture thus far, also lodged a formal complaint about the South African farm attacks with the local American embassy's councillor for foreign affairs, Mrs Gayleatha B Brown. he demanded an urgent high-level US Congressional investigation into the underlying motivations for these farm attacks. He feared "another Zimbabwe-situation"and feared that American investors were not being warned sufficiently by the US administration about the investment and personal risks they were taking in South Africa.
He wrote that the present US government stance that these farm attacks were not politically-motivated, was also totally incorrect.
"In November, about 5 miles from my farm, an elderly lady (73), Mrs. Rina Du Plessis, was brutally murdered . Robbery had nothing to do with this murder. After this murder we began researching what is really happening to farmers in South Africa. The idea that these murders are 'just crime' is the South African's gov't way of trying to cover up what's really happening. It is long past time to keep believing what the South Africa gov't is saying.
"This genocide of farmers (see http://www.genocidewatch.org/BoersSlain01.htm) has got to stop," he wrote.
South African government can expropriate farm land at will:
"Moreover, for the South African government to expropriate land for new highways and dams is one thing, expropriating land to give to a landless person is another," he also warned. "Surely a country which would use these powers to facilitate what really amounts to land confiscation, cannot be seen as a country which lives by meaningful laws. "They are putting this power in ministerial and bureaucratic hands to circumvent the courts eroding an essential foundation of democracy.
"This will lead to another Zimbabwe. Again the US gov't must begin to put pressure on the South African gov't to truly become a democracy based on a rule of meaningful laws which protect its citizens and the rightful ownership of property, rights that a democracy must have to be successful."
South Africa is going to lose significant foreign investment if people like me don't feel safe...
" have invested somewhere between 3-4 million Rand in the 3 years I have had the game farm thus far. South Africa is going to lose significant foreign investment if people like me do not feel safe and see a looming Zimbabwe disaster in the future. "

Anyone else wishing to protest against the secret South African genocide on March 27 -- if they can't travel to Dallas'Grassy Knoll, (pictured left) that day -- are also being encouraged to mount similar protests at important local historical sites where-ever they find themselves in the world that day - and email their venue plans in advance and their pictures to journalist adrianastuijt@home.nl  of http://censorbugbear.com


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Links:
Rina du Plessis murder: November 24, 2004: Background:
http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/farmattacks.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=2164&LastModified=4675457072749104292

The International Campaign against Genocide:
http://www.genocidewatch.org/BoersSlain01.htm

South African police farm attacks report 2003:
http://www.saps.gov.za/farmat/index.htm

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