Fwd: Mugabe denounces white farmers as enemies of state

["Chris Doss" <itschris13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Subject: Mugabe denounces white farmers as enemies of state
>Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:22:06 +0530
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>Wednesday 19 April 2000
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>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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