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2008-04-07 Africa Subsaharan

Zimbabwe: Desperate Mugabe sends in his thugs to seize white farms

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-04-07 09:05|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Mugabe has been accused of winning previous elections through violence and intimidation. Scores of opponents were killed during the 2002 and 2005 campaigns.

I don't think there's anything stopping him this time either.

Posted by Crolusing tse Tung2745 2008-04-07 09:27|| 2008-04-07 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The move indicates he is ready to use violence to cling on to power.

The childish simplicity in that statement is positively charming.

The newsworthy bits here are that any white farmers are still left in Zimbabwe and that there are people ZimBob has not already bought off using seized farms as currency.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-07 10:33|| 2008-04-07 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I ain't no thug. I be an "ontrapenewer"...n a "war vetrin'...

Posted by Farmin B. Hard 2008-04-07 11:08|| 2008-04-07 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 So ... he wants his country to go from hunger and malnutrition to complete starvation? Well, that is progress, I guess. In a retarded sort of way...

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-07 12:59|| 2008-04-07 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Coming up next: The 100 Million Dollar Bill. Get em while they're hot.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-07 13:04|| 2008-04-07 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm shocked.

I didn't know there were any white farms left.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-07 19:04|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-07 19:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Barbara:

My thought too. When I saw the title (I just had to click it), I thought maybe Fred's found the secret to time travel. This really is not news, at least in the "new" sense.

Posted by BA 2008-04-07 20:46|| 2008-04-07 20:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Next up for redistribution: farms owned by light skinned blacks.

Posted by charger 2008-04-07 21:15|| 2008-04-07 21:15|| Front Page Top

#9 It's amazing that 300 farmers are feeding as many Zimbabweans as they are.

Posted by Injun Elmealing3304 2008-04-07 21:41|| 2008-04-07 21:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I didn't know that any "White Farmers" still existed in Zim-bob-land

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-07 22:11|| 2008-04-07 22:11|| Front Page Top

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