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British ambassador named in Zim looting

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Original Post Date: 2001-08-29  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/29/2001 3:16:02 AM
British ambassador named in Zim looting

22/08/2001

A provincial governor in Zimbabwe has accused the British ambassador of being
involved in a plot to loot white-owned farms in Chinoyi north of Harare.

Peter Chanetsa, Mashonaland West governor, also claims that western-backed
aircraft had been used to record the looting in a highly organised media
event, and that the British High Commissioner Brian Donnelly insisted on
heading to the area at the time.

Zimbabwe, through its official media, says the move is aimed at triggering
international condemnation of the government’s land reform programme.

“Investigations into the forces behind the mass looting have established that
the farmers instructed their farm workers to randomly loot their properties
whilst two fixed wing aircraft and a helicopter equipped with powerful
photographic and transmitting gadgets hovered above recording all the
activities,” Chanetsa says.

The governor also says the activities were “in turn beamed on BBC, CNN and
other western TV and radio networks.”

The looting, which lasted several days, was centred in the Doma and Mhanfura
districts in Chinhoyi, in Zimbabwe’s northern Mashonaland West province.

Ambassador Donnelly is reportedly furious at the accusation. “I reject
completely that I was in any way involved,” he says.

Some 350 people have fled Chinoyi as mobs continue to ransack white-owned
farms.

Twenty-one white farmers were arrested on charges of public violence in
connection with the clashes, and have since been released on conditional
bail. – Sapa – AFP