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Monday 28 March 2011

Not My Business

 The Apartheid in South Africa has recently hit it's all time low this week, with numerous horrific beatings, kidnappings and disappearances each involving a Jeep.

  Since Saturday, Akanni Odu and Danladi Rion have been brutally abused and kidnapped. It is seemed that both men had been targeted because of their race and because they aren't the same as the minds behind the kidnappings. Odu was the first of the pair to be kidnapped from their family homes on Wednesday night and police reports have said he was "beat soft like clay, then stuffed into the Jeep." Family of Odu are distraught, saying "It's horrible how it only happened to him. Why him? Why not all of us? Will they come back for us?"

 Rion was another who was beaten and then stuffed into the Jeep this week. It seemed the kidnappers broke in at around 4am in the morning through Rion's open bedroom window, which his family claimed that he always left open so that they could get air. Rion's family told press that they were all awoken by the sounds of screams, but because of fear, none of them left their rooms until they were sure that everyone had left the home and the jeep had driven off. Both of these kidnappings have said to be linked, yet no one has been returned or found.

 The last of these events happened to Chinwe Chunga who was reported missing. A work friend spoke of the event, saying "Chinwe was a lovely person, why would anyone feel the need to do this? its so wrong..."
It was revealed that Chinwe went missing after she was dismissed from her job with no reason. "I feel part of this is because of the kidnappers, and part because she lost her job. She was hurt and confused. I hope she is safe" said Chinwe's friend.

  These are the three events that have happened so far, but how are we to know that they are the last? The apartheid has gone to far this time, and we can't stop what the kidnappers feel is so natural to do.

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