Article: "If De Kock comes to Namibia he will be killed"

Prime Minister Hage Geingob denied on Monday that a delegation of the ruling Swapo party visited former apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock in prison to offer him an opportunity to live in Namibia.

"If De Kock comes to Namibia he will be killed," Geingob said on the sidelines of a press conference, a Sapa correspondent reported.
 
He made reference to several hundred Namibian freedom fighters captured by apartheid South Africa who were put in small aeroplanes, injected with a sedative and then thrown out of the planes into the ocean off the Namibian coast.
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Ooh. Nasty.
Why the sedatives? As if they could swim back.
 
Seriously said:
Compassion? They could have saved money on the sedatives? ;)
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Maybe not compassion? From the other thread about drunken drivers surviving collisions perhaps a doped up freefaller will survive hitting the ocean better than a tense one. Only then does the question of being able to swim become relevant.
 
He made reference to several hundred Namibian freedom fighters captured by apartheid South Africa who were put in small aeroplanes, injected with a sedative and then thrown out of the planes into the ocean off the Namibian coast.
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That is f***ed up.
 
Looks like he made a deal where if he shows them the locations of all the people he killed they will let him out....


But Darby-Lewis must die in jail with cancer.
 
Albereth said:
Maybe not compassion? From the other thread about drunken drivers surviving collisions perhaps a doped up freefaller will survive hitting the ocean better than a tense one. Only then does the question of being able to swim become relevant.
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No... its because a drugged person is easier to manage.

No one will survive a fall from a plane in to the sea.
 
He made reference to several hundred Namibian freedom fighters captured by apartheid South Africa who were put in small aeroplanes, injected with a sedative and then thrown out of the planes into the ocean off the Namibian coast.
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Is that a proven fact or just urban legend and hearsay
 
Compton_effect said:
Ooh. Nasty.
Why the sedatives? As if they could swim back.
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Project Coast?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Coast

Project Coast claimed its first victims at the end of 1982, when “Operation Duel” was launched, which aimed to eliminate hundreds of SWAPO prisoners and SADF informants. Col. Johan Theron, counterintelligence officer in the Special Forces, testified at the Basson trial that he received muscle relaxant pills from Basson in December 1982, and killed approximately 200 SWAPO prisoners, then dumped their bodies from aeroplanes out to sea.

In November 1983, Basson was allegedly involved in the use of CBW against regime opponents in Dukuduku in KwaZulu-Natal. There, he instructed South African agents to tie their intended victims to trees and smear a gel-like ointment on their bodies. When that failed to kill them, they were allegedly injected with an anaesthetic drug and then a muscle relaxant. After they had died, their bodies were thrown into the sea.

In 1985, four SWAPO detainees held at Reconnaissance Regiment headquarters were allegedly given a sleeping drug in soft drinks, taken to Lanseria airport outside Johannesburg and injected with three toxic substances supplied by Basson. Their bodies were thrown into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Nanfeishen said:
Is that a proven fact or just urban legend and hearsay
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Urban legend if you're talking about hundreds - but the number of refugees turning up on the shores of Italy had to have come from somewhere and seeing that the people of Africa love their leaders it is hard to imagine that they could be from anywhere other than something to do with apartheid.
 
Albereth said:
Stop trying to ruin a ridiculous argument.
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As discussed in the Basson thread this is actually a nice argument. Basson can claim he didn't kill anyone because he only supplied the sedative and that didn't kill the prisoners. The aircraft guys can say they were alive when they left the aircraft and can therefore not be held responsible for what happened after they exited the aircraft. Dolus Eventualis has been proven weak by Oscar and these guys set the precedent.
 
R13... said:
As discussed in the Basson thread this is actually a nice argument. Basson can claim he didn't kill anyone because he only supplied the sedative and that didn't kill the prisoners. The aircraft guys can say they were alive when they left the aircraft and can therefore not be held responsible for what happened after they exited the aircraft. Dolus Eventualis has been proven weak by Oscar and these guys set the precedent.
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Nice idea but...

The people had to be dead before I threw them into the sea," explained Mr Theron, a former special forces lieutenant colonel, to eliminate any chance that they would survive to implicate him.
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Everybody jumping on the band wagon now to try and become famous.

I am pretty sure this dude has plans to go quietly and hide somewhere where nobody is gonna find him.
 
Nanfeishen said:
Is that a proven fact or just urban legend and hearsay
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Something similar appeared in an American movie about the Vietnam War. Some Yank officer or South Vietnamese officer, would interrogate Viet Cong fighters in a flying helicopter and kick them out if he wasn't happy with their answers or something.
 
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