-Caveat Lector- Now here is a REAL reason for US Intervention. Where is Bush on this? --------------------
Blacks take over farms as whites flee police By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 17/08/2002) At least 20 white farmers were rounded up and flung into police cells across Zimbabwe yesterday as hundreds of new black farmers, the beneficiaries of recently-appropriated white-owned land, celebrated their new opportunities. Police fanned out across the country and farming officials issued a radio alert to white farmers, advising those who had yet to obey President Robert Mugabe's eviction order that they should flee their homesteads to avoid detention. The Commercial Farmers' Union said last night that hundreds of farmers had heeded the warning and left their homes. Those already in police custody - including 75-year-old Robin Grieves, who is blind - were expected to spend the weekend in jail before being brought before the courts. Six farmers, including "Mac" Crawford, a provincial leader of the CFU, who were detained on Thursday, appeared yesterday in a rural magistrate's court where they were bailed for 5,000 Zimbabwean dollars - about �5. They will appear again on September 6 when they will be charged with defying the government's order to vacate their land by midnight on August 8. A further 20 farmers were cautioned yesterday and made to sign statements, and could yet face arrest. Jenni Williams, a spokesman for the Justice for Agriculture campaign, said: "We are made to believe that a police signal has been sent out . . . that all farmers violating Section 8 (eviction order notices) will be arrested." Ignatius Chombo, the local government minister, appeared to confirm that Mr Mugabe had decided to increase the pressure on those among the 2,900 farmers ordered off their land who have so far defied him. "We have lost our patience with defiant farmers and the time has come for us to act," he said. "We cannot allow them to hold the whole nation to ransom at a time when the beneficiaries of the land reforms are supposed to be preparing for the next agricultural season." German Musundi, 46, was celebrating his good fortune alongside fellow new farmers at the annual congress of the Zimbabwe Farmers' Union, which represents the interests of more than 100,000 black peasant farmers. "I was a teacher and I always wanted to be a farmer, but until now I never had a chance," said Mr Musundi. The numbers at the congress, in Matabeleland, were swelled this year by new farmers who were awarded plots on white-owned land of up to 40 acres each. "I do not know which white farmer owned my land. I applied to be resettled and I was successful and resettled in June. Now I am going to grow food," said Mr Musundi, who was resettled in the southern part of Manicaland province. � Zimbabwe has deported a Libyan it accuses of spying for Britain, the state-owned Herald newspaper said. Yousef Murgham, an intelligence officer at the Libyan embassy until 1993, was also accused of assisting the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and attempting to "scupper oil deals" between Libya and Zimbabwe. ----------------- -iNFoWaRZ The 2nd Amendment: America's REAL "Homeland Security" http://www.geocities.com/infowar2002/2ndamend.html <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
