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In some cases it has been violent and we would like the police to react and to help to remove the squatters from the farms.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: William Hughes, CFU Acting President\u003cbr/\u003eViolence against white farmers is continuing to escalate.\u003cbr/\u003eThe union reported more than 50 cases of violence on members' farms in the past week. \u003cbr/\u003eTwo farmers have been released from hospital after severe assaults, and attacks on farm workers and death threats are widespread.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Zimbabwe's attorney general said the occupations were a just fight against unfair laws on land ownership.\u003cbr/\u003eHe likened them to the struggle by blacks against whites during the apartheid era in neighbouring South Africa a decade ago.\u003cbr/\u003eThe judge is expected to deliver his ruling on the hearing next Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The attorney general argued that this was beyond the resources of the police and that a ruling forcing the police to evict the squatters would ignite a powder keg.  We said that that is not true.  That the events in Harare on the 1st of April showed the police have ample resources and that the powder keg argument is a political one.  I believe that the court will uphold the rule of law and have every confidence in the judge and when he gives his ruling on Thursday I am sure it will be the right one.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Adrian de Bourbon, CFU lawyer\u003cbr/\u003eIn Zimbabwe four-thousand white farmers own one-third of the productive land while most blacks are landless and impoverished. \u003cbr/\u003e SOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"They are under considerable continuous harassments on the farms and it gets them down but nobody's abandoning their farms.\" \u003cbr/\u003eQ: What do you hope to achieve?\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I hope to achieve? Just a return to law and order. That is all we are asking. A return to law an order, then we know how to operate.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Jerry Grant, CFU member and farmer \u003cbr/\u003eSquatters began moving onto farms in early February.\u003cbr/\u003eThey're led by men armed with spears, clubs, knives and guns, and they claim to be veterans of the bush war that brought about the nation's independence in 1980.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English): \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the government for one, well I really salute them for giving back the land that they (the white farmers) have taken forcibly.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Voxpop, Black Bystander\u003cbr/\u003eOn Friday President Mugabe said that squatters would not be forced to withdraw from farms.\u003cbr/\u003eMugabe said Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, should pay white farmers compensation for the seized land. \u003cbr/\u003eBritain ruled that out on Sunday, saying Mugabe's government had misused previous aid and upset international donors. \u003cbr/\u003eZimbabwe's main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change, has accused Mugabe of permitting land seizures to prop up his waning support ahead of elections expected to be called in May.\u003cbr/\u003e Harare, Zimbabwe - 10 April 2000     XFA\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of the High Court in Harare\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of High Court facade\u003cbr/\u003e3. William Hughes, Acting President of the Commercial Farmers Union CFU) in court building\u003cbr/\u003e4. CFU member entering court\u003cbr/\u003e5. Lawyers\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Hughes, CFU Acting President\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of a judge driving away\u003cbr/\u003e8. People leaving court\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of lawyers walking away\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adrian de Bourbon, CFU lawyer\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of CFU members leaving court\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jerry Grant, CFU member and farmer \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of CFU members walking away\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop, Black Bystander\u003cbr/\u003e15.  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