Gruesome murder in Chienge
Mr Kabonda nursing his wounds. JACK ZIMBA ON MONDAY, November 16, a group of men, acting on Senior Chief Puta’s orders, went to demolish a small palace belonging to a headwoman long accused of insurrection in the Bwile chiefdom. What followed, however, was a brutal and bloody revolt that left the chief’s retainer or kapaso dead. From his ipad, Senior Chief Puta shows me pictures he took of his kapaso shortly after he was killed. The images, which are too graphic to publish, show the mangled and bloody face of Peter Muswe - his deep wounds a telltale of a savage and merciless attack. "He was a good man," says the chief, his voice almost breaking. Muswe’s family is shocked at the killing. "My brother was killed like an animal," says Mwenya Muswe, younger brother of the slain royal messenger. And at the district hospital, 60-year-old Gershom Kabonda, another victim of the brutal assault, groans with pain on his hospital bed. He is surr