MDC Working With Rhodesian Selous Scout Networks to Spread Violence in Zimbabwe and South Africa

June 26, 2008 (LPAC)--The political violence in Zimbabwe that the international press dominated by the London-based Anglo-Dutch financial cartel is using to work the world into a frenzy about Zimbabwe is being carried out by networks controlled by London.

Top opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) officials are "working in cahoots with some Rhodesian elements to set up underground structures that are behind the anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa and the terror campaign in Zimbabwe," according to the Zimbabwe Sunday Times June 1. The Times reports that "Although the MDC has been claiming that its supporters have fallen victim to political violence, top party officials are allegedly recruiting young Zimbabweans in South Africa who are being deployed to cause terror in Zimbabwe." The Times said that some people are being recruited from universities in South Africa, and others are Zimbabwe National Army deserters and former policemen.

Zimbabwean sources report that the modus operandi for these forces, in Zimbabwe, is to alert the press that an atrocity has taken place, at the same time they have their operatives dress up in the regalia of the ruling Zanu-PF, and go out to commit an atrocity. The press is soon on the scene, hearing witnesses saying that the attack was carried out by Zanu people.

The Times reports that some of the recruits are quartered at a farm outside Tswane (Pretoria), and that a second group is known to be based at a farm in South Africa near Pietermaritzburg, where youths are being trained by former Rhodesian Selous Scouts.

One of the intentions of the violence carried out in Zimbabwe by the MDC-Scouts apparatus, according to the Times, was to create "refugee centres for Zimbabweans, which would force the United Nations to discuss Zimbabwe at Security Council level." The violence this force perpetrates also provides ample grist for the mill of the international press' anti-Mugabe campaign, and also puts pressure on Mbeki, who is trying to resolve the British-created Zimbabwe situation.

According to the Zimbabwe Guardian June 2, "The Selous Scouts was a special-forces regiment of Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Army which operated from 1973-1980. The charter of the Selous Scouts directed 'the clandestine elimination of freedom fighters inside and outside the country.

Selous Scouts and Rhodesian forces, according to the Guardian, are said to have introduced the form of attack called necklacing [tieing up a person, and killing him by burning a tire placed around his neck] into South Africa. This technique was used during the transition to independence in South Africa, and again recently against immigrants, according to the Guardian. Following the dissolution of the Smith regime in 1980, the Guardian reports, many of its soldiers travelled south "to join the South African Defence Force, especially the 5 Reconnaissance Commando."

BACKGROUND:

6/25/08 Zimbabwe Attack on Dirty Tricks Deflated UK Initiative at UN

6/23/08 Zimbabwe Violence Bears British Counterinsurgency Stamp