The Commercial Farmers Union condemns the new illegal onslaught against these and other farmers, their employees and families.
The alleged beneficiaries of the farms and their hired thugs are taking the law into their own hands, breaking into homesteads using bolt cutters and locking the owners out, leaving them with nothing but the clothes they are wearing. The refusal of the police to act against the intimidation, threats, violence, evictions and occupations signals the start of a renewed onslaught against rural communities in the build up to next years elections.
We are concerned that the refusal by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to respect and uphold the SADC Tribunal Rulings albeit in the interim and to act in resolving the outstanding issues of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) that they brokered, will result in a return to a pre-election terror campaign in Zimbabwe.
We are also concerned that Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (BIPPAs) and Zimbabwean High Court orders have been treated with contempt. This has resulted in thirteen former commercial farmers of Dutch origin, whose farms were seized by President Mugabes government, approaching a court in America in an attempt to seek compensation for their losses.
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