printJohn Safran interviewed me about the extermination of the Boers of South Africa. He is the witty host of a program called “Sunday Night Safran,” on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I don’t know of any one else in Western media covering this atrocity. So far, 5 percent of the farming community has been slaughtered in a manner that would make Shaka and Dingane proud. John Writes:
Hi Ilana.
Hope you are well.
We interviewed Gregory H. Stanton of Genocide Watch yesterday. We had heaps of feedback after your appearance. Some were skeptical of your figures (2,000 out of 40,000 Boer farmers murdered) because they couldn’t be corroborated by three seconds of googling. Gregory backed up your figures, spelt out how he sourced them, and explained that the sadistic nature of the killings (as oppose to murder as incidental to robbery) makes them troubling to scholars of genocide.
If you’re interested in hearing him, the show will be live-streamed and podcasted as per last time.
All the best,
John
You can listen to Gregory H. Stanton here. The pod thing should was posted on Sunday, February 18.
Further reading and resources are here.
The sadistic nature of the killings isn’t that hard to explain. The killers are primitive tribesmen. Torture and mutilation are what they do to each other and certainly what they do to white europeans.
Well–I went to it (Safran), and I must say the priest was not exactly convinced. There are none so blind as those that will not see.
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What is the time frame covered by the 2000 murders?
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War and killing. It will only stop when people stop hating, the patently mental exercise of nursing wounds and stoking the fires of revenge. You can’t put out the fires of violence with gasoline. You must remove the fuel. There has to be an effort to understand and “to remember that all men, even our enemies are human”
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