Killing For Profit: Exposing The Illegal Rhino Horn Trade - Plot & Excerpts
Spiny branches of sekelbos cover the graves as protection from scavengers. Strewn among the branches are some of the dead men’s possessions: Dario’s toothbrush, a used tube of Colgate toothpaste and a blue rucksack; Maqombisi’s empty wallet, a battered ashtray, and pieces of green, pink and blue chalk. A few compact discs – among them a compilation of Irish country music – glint in the sun. Scratches criss-cross the surfaces. Dario, the eldest of five brothers, was thirty-eight when he died. He was his family’s ‘breadwinner’ and a father of three. Maqombisi was in his mid-thirties, also married, also described as a ‘breadwinner’. He loved music, they say. A dirt road leads from the graveyard to Canhane, the tiny village south of Lake Massingir in Mozambique’s Gaza Province, where the two men spent their lives. The villagers say they left for ‘the bush’ one day in September 2011. A week later they were returned home in cheap pine coffins with rope handles. The men saw the pale corpses – drained of blood – and the gaping wounds left by the high-velocity bullets that had torn through them.
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