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Original Post Date: 2001-08-21 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/21/2001 7:23:36 AM
Mugabe snubs Red Cross
Hello everyone
This just in from Zimbabwe. Even the Red Cross appears to be
‘persona non ggrata’. Now how much does that tell you!!
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From The Sunday Telegraph (UK), 19 August
Zimbabwe snubs Red Cross offer to shelter refugees
Hwedza – The government of Zimbabwe has refused permission to the
International Committee of the Red Cross to set up refugee camps for black
farm labourers forced off their land in the latest wave of looting and
occupations by militant supporters of Robert Mugabe. Thousands of starving
farm workers and their wives and children are wandering aimlessly around
the outskirts of Harare in search of food and shelter from the Zimbabwean
winter. Many are from Hwedza, a once prosperous tobacco-growing area 50
miles east of the capital, where so-called war veterans and militants from
the ruling Zanu PF went on the rampage last week, driving farm workers
before them like cattle.
There were fears yesterday that the anarchy would spread after Ignatius
Chombo, the chairman of the government’s National Land Taskforce, said
that all blacks who had been allocated plots on confiscated white-owned
farms must move on to their new land by August 31. The deadline is likely
to provoke a fresh wave of farm occupations. The Hwedza attacks followed
raids the previous week in the farming towns of Chinhoyi and Doma in which
45 farms were wrecked and burnt and 21 white farmers arrested. Black
farmworkers have also become the target of attacks in a new tactic that
has brought farming to a halt at a busy time of year.
The fleeing workers initially camped outside police stations and
government offices but armed police moved families on. They now wander the
district in search of help, huddling together at night to keep warm. Most
have been wearing the same clothes since they were herded from their homes
by chanting youths. Speaking of her ordeal, Louisa Gwatidzo, a farm
labourer’s wife, wept as she said: “They just came and ordered everyone to
pack up and leave and said that anyone found in any of the houses would be
in trouble. We are in the middle of the month and I don’t have any money
to transport my goods or buy food. I don’t know where my children will go
to school.”
According to Malcolm Vowles, the deputy director of the Commercial
Farmers’ Union, workers from 16 farms in Hwedza have been evicted. Farming
in the area has been brought to a standstill. “From this whole area alone
the country is going to lose 352,000lb of tobacco and 19,600 tons of
paprika,” said one Hwedza farmer. The ransacking of farms in Hwedza
continued yesterday and a mob screamed, “You white British bitch”, at a
woman barricaded in her homestead with her husband. While white farmers
usually have friends to stay with, farm workers have nowhere to go. They
fear that if they stay in one place they will be picked up by marauding
bands of Zanu PF militants and herded into camps for “re-education”, the
euphemism used by the party for public beatings.
The Sunday Telegraph has learned that a request from the Red Cross to
provide shelter for the traumatised families has been refused by the
Zimbabwean government. The camps might also be used to house white farmers
in the event that they were unable to find shelter with friends or
security deteriorated on the roads. They could also be used as assembly
points for a mass evacuation of Europeans. Last week British and European
diplomats held meetings to review plans for an armoured convoy to move
their citizens out to Mozambique and South Africa if conditions worsen.
Twenty-five thousand British nationals are registered with the British
High Commission but there are believed to be as many as 40,000 in
Zimbabwe. Many farmers are angry that international aid agencies have done
nothing about the worsening humanitarian plight. “The silence is
sinister,” complained Kerry Kay, a farmer’s wife who heads the Farm
Orphans’ Trust. “Not one of these aid organisations has said a thing.” The
strongest criticism is reserved for the British Government. “What more
does Mugabe have to do before they will speak out?” asked one. “Do we have
to wait until we have Taliban-style public executions?”