Zimbabwe Farm Unrest Continues

Newsday.com ^ | 9/08/01 | MICHAEL HARTNACK

[kattracks]

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Ruling party militants occupied a farm Saturday, burning buildings and threatening its white manager in violence that came three days after Zimbabwe's government pledged to restore law and order and stop the seizure of white-owned land.

About 150 militants stormed onto Logan Lee Farm in Beatrice, 40 miles south of Harare, and threatened manager Angus Brown and his employees, said Jenni Williams, a spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers' Union, which represents about 5,000 white landowners. Brown fled.

[TonyBanks]

"Police refused to respond to calls for help, and the local farmers' association advised Brown via radio to abandon the property after workers' houses were burnt,..."

USA, circa 2020?

[Eska]

Thats why they'll never get the guns from Americans. People see it coming.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Farm Unrest Continues"

"Unrest" is certainly a mild way of putting it. If this were happening in South America under the auspices of a right-wing government, we would be hearing about "roving death squads," not "farm unrest."