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Zimbabwe Arrests Six White Farmers

Six white farmers have been arrested by Zimbabwean police, according to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting corporation on Thursday evening.

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Six white farmers have been arrested by Zimbabwean police, according to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting corporation on Thursday evening.

The report said that the six white farmers would appear in court on Friday to face charges for defying a government eviction order.

It said that the six farmers from the southwestern Matabeleland province were believed to be the first to be charged for defying the government's Aug. 9 deadline to hand over their farms to the landless blacks.

It said that the six would face a fine or a two-year jail term.

Zimbabwe set for itself the deadline of end of August by which distribution of land under the A2 Model of resettlement should have been completed.

Mugabe ordered nearly 3,000 white farmers to stop all production in June and gave them until Aug. 9 to vacate their farms and homes to make way for landless blacks.

The president has said that his "fast-track" land resettlement program is aimed at correcting imbalances in land ownership created by British colonialism, which left the bulk of Zimbabwe's prime farming land in the hands of minority whites.

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