Mugabe denounces white farmers as enemies of state

Ulhas Joglekar ulhasj at bom4.vsnl.net.in
Thu Apr 20 07:52:06 PDT 2000


Wednesday 19 April 2000

Mugabe denounces white farmers as enemies of state HARARE: President Robert Mugabe told state television on Tuesday, the 20th anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence, that white farmers were the enemies of the state. "Our present state of mind is that you (white farmers) are now our enemies because you really have behaved as enemies of Zimbabwe," he said after his anniversary address to the nation. "That we are full of anger. Our entire community is angry and this is why you have the war veterans now, you know, seizing land," Mugabe added. His comments came after news had broken that a second white farmer had been killed by alleged veterans of the 1970s war of liberation. Earlier, he said he empathised with the frustration of landless blacks who have occupied hundreds of white-owned farms for redistribution to black peasants. (Reuters) For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service
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