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Article: Zimbabwe farmers say premier downplays farm attacks to secure foreign investment.
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- BBC Monitoring International Reports
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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Text of report by Alex Bell entitled "Prime minister plays down farm attacks" published by London-based Zimbabwe independent Short Wave Radio Africa on 25 May
Members of Zimbabwe's farming community, which has been left reeling by the ongoing farm invasions, have reacted with outrage to comments by Prime Minister Tsvangirai about the attacks.
During an interview about the 100-day milestone of the Global Political Agreement last week, the Prime Minister played down the serious nature of the ongoing and violent farm invasions, calling them 'isolated incidents' that have been 'blown out of proportion'.
"We have investigated examples of those so ...