owner – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

Rwanda: The [2021] Beating Case Involving Mine-Owner Sun Shujun (孙树军)! (4.12.2023)

04/12/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

According to African media reports, the Chinese businessman’s name is “Sun Shujun” (孙树军), and he is the Manager of a mine in Western Rwanda. In 2021, a video of Sun Shujun whipping a (thieving) Rwandan-worker tied a pole – was posted on social networking sites – causing an uproar. When the Rwandan people killed one another in the millions during the 1990s (during tribal-orientated genocides) – the Courts at that time emphasised the ancient African wisdom of “Peace” and “Reconciliation”. Obviously, as can be seen from the case of Sun Shujun – such a mature and admirable form of African justice does not apply to non-African people.

Monument: Water-Trough and Cross – William Francis Gamul Farmer (1812- 1860) – BellGate Entrance – (East) Nonsuch Park [Cheam] (11.8.2022)

11/08/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

Willian Francis Gamul Farmer married one ‘Matilda Farmer (nee ‘Wilkinson’) [1815-1889] and produced eleven children with here – seven boys and four girls. The names of his children were William Robert Gamul Farmer, Thomas Allix Farmer, Matilda Frances Farmer, George Lancelot McLean Farmer, Margaret Anna Farmer, Emily Mary Farmer, Charles Edward Farmer, Revd. James Edmund Gamul Farmer, Henry Lowth Farmer, Catherine Augusta Farmer and Francis Colebrooke Farmer. He inherited from his grandfather when aged 26 years old (in 1838) and again from his father – William Meeke Farmer (1778-1840) – when he was 28 years old in 1840! This is why he lived the care-free life associated with the landed gentry. Willian Francis Gamul Farmer was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey before reaching the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Surrey – when he received his appointment in 1849 (when he was around 37 years old). Indeed, so important a person was he – that an oil painting was commissioned to record this important event – which seems to show him around 37 years old (although I cannot find any verification for the date or the name of the artist, etc).