By Brian Latham
Harare - All signs are that Zimbabwe's white farmers can expect no respite from the terror of the last two years, following the brutal murder of Terry Ford.
The farmer was dragged from his home in Norton, about 20km west of Harare, on Monday. He was then beaten senseless and placed against a tree, where he was executed, allegedly by so-called war veterans.
Ford was the tenth farmer to be killed since the occupation of land owned by white farmers started more than two years ago.
'There was just so much blood' "There was just so much blood," said Ben Freeth of the Commercial Farmers Union.
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"Terry was alone in the house. The war vets hadn't let him farm for about two years, so he had just come on a routine visit," he said.
According to Freeth, about 20 war veterans and farm invaders stormed Ford's home just after midnight.
Freeth said that when the chanting mob arrived on his farm, Ford called the police and two neighbours for assistance.
"By 2.15 in the morning, Terry called to say no police had arrived. That was the last we heard from him."
Ford's battered body was found under a tree on Monday, guarded by his faithful Irish terrier. He had been shot in the face at least once.
The incident comes in the wake of last week's murder of a farm guard in the Ruzawi River area, about 100km east of Harare.
Shortly after the guard's death, war veterans thrashed farmer Jon Rutherford, leaving his buttocks bleeding and lacerated. - Independent Foreign Service
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