Charges dropped against 13 farmers
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From Times Wire Reports
Zimbabwe withdrew charges against a group of white farmers who faced trial for resisting eviction from their land, a defense lawyer said.
Thirteen farmers from northwestern Zimbabwe who appealed their eviction notices were being tried for failing to leave after a Sept. 30 deadline passed.
President Robert Mugabe’s government embarked on a drive in 2000 to take commercial farms from whites to resettle landless blacks. An estimated 600 of the previous 4,500 white farmers now remain on the land.
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