Ex-mercenary claims South African group tried to spread Aids

[Judi Lynn]

New documentary details unit’s disturbing obsession with HIV

Emma Graham-Harrison, Andreas Rocksen and Mads Brügger
Sun 27 Jan 2019 03.02 EST

A South Africa-based mercenary group has been accused by one of its former members of trying to intentionally spread Aids in southern Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.

The claims are made by Alexander Jones in a documentary that premieres this weekend at the Sundance film festival. He says he spent years as an intelligence officer with the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR), three decades ago, when it was masterminding coups and other violence across Africa.

The film also explores the unexplained murder of a young SAIMR recruit in 1990, whose family believe was killed because of her work on an Aids-related project run by the group in South Africa and Mozambique.

And it also claims the group’s then leader had a racist, apocalyptic obsession with HIV/Aids. Keith Maxwell wrote about a plague he hoped would decimate black populations, cement white rule, and bring back conservative religious mores, according to papers collected by the film-makers.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/south-african-intelligence-officers-spread-aids-black-communities

[SCantiGOP]

1. I certainly believe this

I got to know a guy from South Africa in the early 80's very well. He had come here to study and decided to stay.
His father was a die hard racist. He said his constant refrain was that AIDS would be the salvation of the white race in South Africa. This was because the blacks were immoral and unrestrained concerning sex, while the Christian white folks only slept with their wives. This despite the fact that he was on his third wife since both he and his two ex's had cheated on each other, and two of cousins had children out of wedlock, one of whom was mixed race.
He said many of the Afrikaners were interested in Hitler and other fascist leaders since they thought that was going to be the only way to maintain white rule in S Africa.
I am glad he was proven wrong about one thing. He was convinced that the whites would never give up power without a bloodbath. I guess they realized that being in a 4 to 1 minority meant it was going to be mostly their blood being spilled in any civil war.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I've seen articles on other, similarly hardened, ruthless people quite like him from S. Africa, too.

A very decency-resistant bunch of hate-driven racists developed there, so unlike human beings. Mind-boggling.

Hope his son was able to break out of his orbit.

[Judi Lynn]

2. South African paramilitary unit plotted to infect black population with Aids, former member claims

Group said to have 'spread the virus' at the behest of Keith Maxwell, eccentric leader of the shadowy South African Institute of Maritime Research, who wanted a white majority country where 'the excesses of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have no place in the post-Aids world'.

Adam Lusher
9 hours ago

A shadowy Apartheid-era South African paramilitary unit plotted to infect the continent’s black population with Aids, it has been claimed.

An ex-member of the South African Institute of Maritime Research (SAIMR) said the group “spread the virus” at the behest of its eccentric leader Keith Maxwell, who wanted a white majority country where “the excesses of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have no place in the post-Aids world”.

Speaking to the makers of the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld, former SAIMR intelligence officer Alexander Jones said Maxwell, who had few, if any medical qualifications, set himself up as a doctor treating poor, black South Africans.

“What easier way to get a guinea pig than [when] you live in an apartheid system?” Jones told the film, which premieres this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. “Black people have got no rights, they need medical treatment. There’s a white ‘philanthropist’ coming in and saying, ‘You know, I’ll open up these clinics and I’ll treat you.’ And meantime [he is] actually the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africa-apartheid-aids-saimr-plot-infect-hiv-virus-black-cold-case-hammarskj-ld-documentary-a8749176.html