[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Zim land

[jonathan lawson]

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At 12:23 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, Lance Larkin wrote:
>subtitle: RELATIONS WITH AFRICA OR THE NEW WHITE MAN'S
>BURDEN
>title: Corporate Media: "Mad despotic rulers and poor
>black peasants."
>
>The small landlocked country of Zimbabwe is in the
>news again. The current crisis is one of drought, yet
>the international press vilifies the government for
>intentionally <a
>href="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1060287,00.html">starving
>Zimbabwean citizens</a>. This natural disaster is
>being used to focus attention on a regime the West
>would rather see gone. But why?
>
>The aging President Mugabe recently rejected food aid
>from the United States, so Western observers
>criticized him for irrationally subjecting his people
>to further suffering. Astute journalists have linked
>this rejection of food aid to a thread of thought that
>is often invoked when discussing globalization: <a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16676&group=webcast">
>national sovereignty</a>.
>
>International criticism of Mugabe was focused during
>the Zimbabwean Parliamentary elections of 2000. The
>government promised that war veterans would get land
>after Independence in 1980. The vets finally started
>reclaiming white farms on their own prior to the
>parliamentary elections. The Zimbabwean government
>quickly implemented a fast track land reform program
>to reclaim land and grant it to those who apply for
>agricultural land.
>
>The white landowners vehemently oppose the
>reclamation, with violence occurring on both sides.
>Their appeals to the international community emphasize
>the brutality of the Mugabe regime and inexperience of
>black farmers. The Zimbabwean government has <a
>href="http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,48914.jsp">publicly
>declared</a> white farm owners can retain their farms
>if they go through the land application process like
>everyone else. Additionally the government has
>legislated a process for making sure that the
>commercial farms remain <a
>href="http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?id=12916&pubdate=2002-08-06">productive</a>.
>
>
>Without looking at the divisive politics within the
>country, the question of land resettlement has grabbed
>international attention. The rhetoric of the
>controversy surrounds democracy and economic
>stability, but the reality of the situation is the <a
>href="http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0813-02.htm">livelihood
></a>of displaced Africans. This reality - both black
>and white - has been captured in a <a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16707">documentary</a>
>by Tsitsi Dangarembga showing at the Seattle IMC on
>Friday, August 23rd..
>
>
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>
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