You are xenophobic. He is a Muslim so what? An I supposed to find one of your queen's subject? Ok, her you go
Singapore: From third world to first
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He was very tolerent towards the white British settler minority untill the Brits unilaterally widrown from
Lancaster House Agreement in the early 2000s. Untill then, he was trying to bring land reform though compensation without using force. once the brits unilaterally windrown, he had no choice but to go ahead with forceful land reform.
Again, he liberated his peoples from the absolute opression and racism by the British setlers and bought his peoples out from reserves.
Two random pictures deserves nothing more.
Prone to babbling crap and believing anything he reads.
The first stage of that transition was started by the British. They did a good job afterwards too, but Britain set the ball rolling in the late 1950s and prevented Communist regression supported by the USSR and China between 1963 and 1966 from holding them back.
Educate yourself:
Land reform in Zimbabwe - Wikipedia
The government organised a referendum on the new constitution in February 2000, despite having a sufficiently large majority in parliament to pass any amendment it wished. Had it been approved, the new constitution would have empowered the government to acquire land compulsorily without compensation. Despite vast support in the media, the new constitution was defeated, 55% to 45%.
A few days later, the pro-Mugabe
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) organised several people (including but not limited to war veterans; many of them were their children and grandchildren) to march on white-owned farmlands, initially with drums, song and dance. This movement was officially termed the "Fast-Track Land Reform Program" (FTLRP). The predominantly white farm owners were forced off their lands along with their workers, who were typically of regional descent. This was often done violently and without compensation. In this first wave of farm invasions, a total of 110,000 square kilometres of land had been seized. Several million black farm workers were excluded from the redistribution, leaving them without employment. According to
Human Rights Watch, by 2002 the War Veterans Association had "killed white farm owners in the course of occupying commercial farms" on at least seven occasions, in addition to "several tens of [black] farm workers".
[32] The first white farmers to die as a direct consequence of the resettlement programme were murdered by Zimbabwean paramilitaries in mid-2000. More commonly, violence was directed against farmworkers, who were often assaulted and killed by the war veterans and their supporters.
[33] Violent confrontations between the farmers and the war veterans occurred and resulted in exchanges of gunfire, as well as a state of armed siege on the affected farms.
[34]
Officially the land was divided into small-holder production, so called A1 schemes and commercial farms, called A2 schemes. There is however much overlap between the two categories.
[35]
The violent takeover of
Alamein Farm by retired Army General
Solomon Mujuru sparked the first legal action against one of Robert Mugabe's inner circle.
[36][37] In late 2002 the seizure was ruled illegal by the High and Supreme Courts of Zimbabwe; however the previous owner was unable to effect the court orders and General Mujuru continued living at the farm until his death on 15 August 2011.
[38][39] Many other legal challenges to land acquisition or to eviction were not successful.
[40]
On 10 June 2004, a spokesperson for the British embassy, Sophie Honey, said:
[41]
The UK has not reneged on commitments (made) at Lancaster House. At Lancaster House the British Government made clear that the long-term requirements of land reform in Zimbabwe were beyond the capacity of any individual donor country.Since [Zimbabwe's] independence we have provided 44 million pounds for land reform in Zimbabwe and 500 million pounds in bilateral development assistance.The UK remains a strong advocate for effective, well managed and pro-poor land reform. Fast-track land reform has not been implemented in line with these principles and we cannot support it.
The Minister for Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement, John Nkomo, had declared five days earlier that all land, from crop fields to wildlife conservancies, would soon become state property. Farmland deeds would be replaced with 99-year leases, while leases for wildlife conservancies would be limited to 25 years.
[42] There have since been denials of this policy, however.[
citation needed]
Parliament, dominated by
Zanu-PF, passed a constitutional amendment, signed into law on 12 September 2005, that nationalised farmland acquired through the "Fast Track" process and deprived original landowners of the right to challenge in court the government's decision to expropriate their land.
[43] The
Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled against legal challenges to this amendment.
[44] The case (
Campbell v Republic of Zimbabwe) was heard by the
SADC Tribunal in 2008, which held that the Zimbabwean government violated the SADC treaty by denying access to the courts and engaging in racial discrimination against white farmers whose lands had been confiscated and that compensation should be paid.
[45] However, the High Court refused to register the Tribunal's judgment and ultimately, Zimbabwe withdrew from the Tribunal in August 2009.
[46]
In January 2006, Agriculture Minister
Joseph Made said Zimbabwe was considering legislation that would compel commercial banks to finance black peasants who had been allocated formerly white-owned farmland in the land reforms. Made warned that banks failing to lend a substantial portion of their income to these farmers would have their licenses withdrawn.
The newly resettled peasants had largely failed to secure loans from commercial banks because they did not have title over the land on which they were resettled, and thus could not use it as collateral. With no security of tenure on the farms, banks have been reluctant to extend loans to the new farmers, many of whom do not have much experience in commercial farming, nor assets to provide alternative collateral for any borrowed money.
[47]
By going against a democratic vote and exercising racism and brutality. He liberated his country from successful management to unsuccessful management and then stood as a despot for decades.
Two random pictures of Russian agents who travelled under aliases from an airport to the Skirpal's street at the time in question.
