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MDC says police now helping

    JOHANNESBURG

    In related developments, the MDC said in a statement the police appeared to be becoming more active in enforcing law and order than they had been up to now. For the first time, it said, police on Monday carried out a court order and evicted a group of veterans and ruling party supporters who had been occupying a farm in the eastern Chimanimani area for the past three weeks.

    The farm is owned by Roy Bennett, a high-profile MDC candidate whose wife had had been temporarily taken hostage by the 60 invaders. The police have come under growing criticism from the MDC sand rights activists for their failure to stop the farm invasions and rural violence, despite two court orders.

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