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by Benjamin Bice » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:56 am
R.I.P Fallen South Africans
Mrs Helen Lotter, 57, and her bedridden
mother Alice, 76. Tortured to death with
broken beer bottles in their anuses and
vaginas – the attack had been so
horrendous that the post-mortem
examiner was unable to find any of Helen
Lotter’s sexual organs at all; her breasts
were partially cut off and broken bottle-
shards were inserted in her vagina and
anus as part of the hours of torture she
and her mother Alice had endured –her
cervix and uterus were completely
shredded. The mother’s front teeth were
bashed out; her entire body was ‘covered
in bruises, chafing and stabbing wounds.
Her sexual parts were mutilated
extensively also internally. The old farm
woman had died due to ‘asphyxiation after
breathing in blood from penetrating
stabbing wounds in her neck and throat’.
They were then both left to die. Mrs Helen
Lotter’s death-bed confession identified
the killers as a gardener, Joseph
Hlongwane, 22 who had only started
working for them a few months earlier,
and an associate Joseph Khumalo, 21. The
forensic DNA and fingerprint evidence
confirmed Helen Lotter’s death-bed
confession. “Kill the Boer” had been
daubed in the women’s blood on the
farmhouse walls.
ANC mayor, Mrs Mataba Leeto led an anti-
Boer protest at the law court where the
trial was held. They chanted genocidal
hate-speech songs such as ‘Kill the Boer,
kill the Farmer’ in support of the two
killers’ getting bail. Mrs Leeto has not
been put on public record as expressing
any kind of sympathy nor outrage over the
way the two Lotter women had been
tortured to death. Instead, she led a group
which was protesting against the ‘racism’
of local Afrikaner residents who had held a
‘re-enactment’ of the way in which the
women were tortured to death to illustrate
the community’s deep anger. Both men
were found guilty and sent to prison.
Mental element
Intent to destroy can be proven directly
from statements or orders. In this case the
statement “Kill the Boer” can be linked
directly to the crime and can be
interpreted as an order.
In whole or in part: perpetrators need not
intend to destroy the entire group, an
individual criminal may be guilty of
genocide even if he kills only one person,
so long as he knew he was participating in
a larger plan to destroy the group. In this
case two individuals killed two people, and
by providing evidence for intention, “Kill
the Boer”, their actions infer that in their
minds, they were acting out on a larger
plan to destroy a group.
A national, ethnical, racial or religious
group: In this case the perpetrators acted
on the Afrikaner ethnic group specifically,
as proven with their words “Kill the Boer”.
Physical element
In this case we had the killing members of
the group. On top of that, the crime
included torture, rape, sexual violence and
mutilation which are synonymous with
genocide.
