The stories about ‘land redistribution’ and the torture of farmers being forced to give up their land to native Zimbabweans has been brewing for a long time at Sokwanele.com (caution: the graphic imagery here is not for all) but it finally caught international attention this week when big media outlet CNN picked it up.

The bigger story is that the events behind the story has been going on for weeks with pictures of the violence circulating on Flickr for quite sometime on the Sokwanele Flickr page. Read the backlog of coverage here on ThisIsZimbabwe.

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