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Full Circle 2nd September 2003 It is with some disappointment that I detect some sympathy emanating from your paper directed at the resettled farmers whose property was torched by the police to make way for a Mr Mukumba in Masvingo (Police torch 1 000 homes, Daily News 26 August). Those people who were forcibly removed by the police do not have my sympathy at all. They certainly do not deserve any from anyone. These resettled farmers wilfully participated in the orgy of violence orchestrated by ZANU PF and directed at farmers purely on the basis that these farmers were white. They forcefully, and without an iota of mercy, hounded farmers out of their farmhouses and took over their households. They then unlawfully confiscated the farmers' equipment and started using the farm forks, knives and beds. They ate the farmers' cheese and slaughtered their cattle for braais. It is with a sense of great satisfaction that I learn that these resettled farmers have themselves been made recipients of similar treatment by their former allies, who previously turned a blind eye to their terrorism. During the so-called resettlement exercise countrywide, farm workers had their property torched and they were thrown into abject poverty. They suffered immensely. These resettled farmers were well aware of the wrongfulness and unlawfulness, not to mention unfairness, of their selfish actions. They were willing to be used as pawns for the so-called spontaneous land invasions. They now cry foul when they are treated shabbily and expect sympathy from the public. Fat chance! These people were accomplices in the destruction of the agricultural industry in a prospering Zimbabwe. They have directly and indirectly contributed to the food shortages that are presently being endured by the nation. They are discovering that what goes around certainly does come around. God is alive, after all. As far as some of us are concerned, the recent eviction of resettled farmers by the police and government is nothing but a fallout with a partner in crime. We gleefully look forward to more of the same! Vusumusi Sibhula in
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