Ben Freeth and his wife Laura with their children Anna, Phillip and Josh.
Posted on 10/11/2009 12:39:27 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
A British farmer who stood up to Robert Mugabe and was beaten, abducted and finally had his house burnt down has travelled to Washington to ask the Obama administration to put pressure on the Zimbabwe government before it seizes the last remaining white farms.
Ben Freeth and his wife Laura with their children Anna, Phillip and Josh.
Ben Freeth, who moved to Zimbabwe from Kent, joined his father-in-law Mike Campbell in taking Mugabe to an international court to stop the farm seizures. Their secret footage of the campaign of intimidation launched against them will form part of a film to be released in London this month.
A Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal in Namibia ruled last November that the farm seizures were illegal and ordered Zimbabwe’s government to pay costs. Within a month President Robert Mugabe’s regime had sent thugs to set fire to both men’s farms while they were at church, destroying everything they owned as well as the homes of their workers.
In June the tribunal ruled that Zimbabwe was in contempt of court. Far from respecting the decision, a leaked document published in The Zimbabwe Times last week revealed that Mugabe plans to expel all the remaining white farmers and seize their land.
The land seizures were expected to stop when the former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai became prime minister last year after agreeing a peace deal with Mugabe. Tsvangirai, originally backed by white farmers, was even considered a candidate for this year’s Nobel peace prize.
Freeth said he had written four times to Tsvangirai but his letters were never acknowledged. Although the main levers of power such as the army, police and justice ministry have remained in Mugabe’s hands, Freeth insists that “Tsvangirai could at least be calling for action. He
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Hens, chicken coop, fox...
The poster child of the Nobel Commitee stop the poster child of the United Nations, Mr. Freeth you are a racist.
This will go to the bottom of The One’s “To-Do List”.
LOL!
Meanwhile, everybody here in the US is waiting for Ubama to begin seizing America’s white-owned farms and handing them over to his ACORN supporters. This guy in Zimbabwe must be smoking some crazy stuff.
In other words, Mugabe's thugs are jus' keepin' it real.
Obama isn’t about to criticize Mugabe!
Right now, Dear Leader is having a uniform designed to go with his NPP. It's an idea he got from Idi Amin Dada...
Obama is about to adopt Mugabe policy in America. He be hypocritical if he criticise Mugabe
He would be better off begging the Chinese government to help him. They are the ones who have Mugabe in their pocket.
Ha, ha—yeah like that’ll happen.
Mister, you really don’t understand what “Hope and Change” really mean do you!
Next year Mugabe will be awarded the “peace prize”.
Nah! The ONE’S got it sewed up for the next ten years, if Europe remains non-Islamic that long!
Why did our government just in the past few months send OUR TAX DOLLARS to Zimbawe??????
Obama has adopted Mugabe policy in America. There, fixed that for you.
Robert Mugabe is the front runner for Nobel Peace Prize 2010.
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