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Veterans release white farmers

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, war veterans and ruling ZANU-PF supporters on Thursday released 18 white farmers held hostage overnight, Tim Henwood, president of the Commercial Farmers’ Union told IRIN.

    The farmers were held after responding to a call for help from a neighbour at a farm near the capital, Harare. “We went there and tried to smooth things,” Henwood said. “It seems there was a misunderstanding. They thought the farmers had come to attack them.”

    In a separate incident, news reports said a dozen veterans carrying automatic weapons had stormed a white-owned farm at Norton, 40 km from Harare, where they allegedly threatened staff for talking to journalists about the land crisis.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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