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Article: ZIMBABWE'S FAMINE MAN-MADE.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 9, 2002
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Byline: DAVID COLTART Member of Zimbabwe Parliament
In the past two years Zimbabwe has been transformed into a state that increasingly resembles Cambodia under Pol Pot. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation.
In May, a law was passed decreeing that any commercial farmer who continued to farm 45 days after being given notice to stop would face imprisonment.
Today, that law will be used to evict thousands of commercial farmers and their workers. Fear and desperation pervades the country. All the signs are that President Robert Mugabe is determined to hold on to power at any cost, including ...