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...assemble in public. To make things worse, Mugabe is winding up a two-year campaign of violence and intimidation that resulted in 16 political murders last month, according to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum. He has assembled militias, allegedly composed of war veterans, and used them to expropriate farmland from white Zimbabweans. In the past week, Mugabe’s government has even accused the leading opposition candidate of treason...
...states have asked for research. They know that a year after Canada allowed hemp cultivation in 1998, its farms were already growing 35,000 acres. The U.S. has taken a different, more tangled approach to the plant, one that reflects the quick assumptions of the war on drugs. The farmland around leafland, a once commanding estate east of Lexington, used to provide a rich bounty to the Graves clan. Jacob Hughes, a Welshman, first planted in this part of Kentucky in the 1770s, but now his great-great-grandson, Jacob Hughes Graves III, 75, grows corn and tobacco only...
...pass an Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill, which will ban foreign correspondents from the country and impose heavy fines and jail terms on local reporters for "unethical journalism." For the past two years Mugabe has tried to secure support for his zanu-pf party by distributing farmland forcibly wrested from its white owners to landless black Zimbabweans. The looked-for political gains have not materialized as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, won 57 of the 119 constituency-held seats in June 2000 elections. Since then bands of ZANU-PF thugs have...
...year. ZIMBABWE Legal Invasions Harare's newly expanded Supreme Court ruled that the government could continue its controversial land-reform program, reversing a previous ruling that the policy was unconstitutional. The interim order means courts can continue to process government applications to seize and redistribute white-owned farmland...
...only now it represents a government seemingly bent on destroying them, even if it destroys the country. The turmoil in Chinhoyi is the latest in an 18-month onslaught against the white farming community since Mugabe declared a "fast-track" policy of seizing more than 90% of white-owned farmland for black resettlement. Nine white farmers have died in the accompanying violence. Scores of black farm workers have been injured, and thousands more have been driven from the land by militant squatters. Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union says supplies of maize, wheat, tobacco, coffee, meat and dairy products have fallen...