ZIMBABWE/THAILAND: WHITE ZIMBABAWEANS BRANDED ENEMIES OF STATE BY MUGABE SEEK WAY OUT F THE COUNTRY

Record ID: 981182

  • Title: ZIMBABWE/THAILAND: WHITE ZIMBABAWEANS BRANDED ENEMIES OF STATE BY MUGABE SEEK WAY OUT F THE COUNTRY
  • Date: 18th April 2000
  • Summary: HARARE, ZIMBABWE (APRIL 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. GV CITY CENTRE/BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION 0.05 2. SLV UNION FLAG 0.10 3. MV UNIDENTIFIED WHITE COUPLE -- MAN IS BLIND -- WHO WERE FRIENDS OF MURDERED FARMER MARTIN OLDS 0.15 4. SV (SOUNDBITE)(English) UNIDENTIFIED WHITE WOMAN SAYING: "We lost a friend yesterday." 0.19 5. MV BLIND MAN COMFORTING WOMAN 0.25 6. SV (SOUNDBITE)(English) UNIDENTIFIED WHITE BLIND MAN WHO LOST HIS EYESIGHT FIGHTING DURING THE LIBERATION WAR, SAYING: "The thing is, I was blinded in the war here and I decided that we were going to stay and make a life here, which I think we have done. But after 20 years, it looks like it's not possible any longer." 0.41 7. SLV PEOPLE ENTER BUILDING 0.44 8. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) SECOND UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MAN SAYING: "Right now two deaths, two white farmers have been killed. I don't know whether this is going to escalate, you know, move into the suburb. It's going to be a difficult one to 'put brakes on'. The ex-combattants are flamed up, fired up." 1.02 9. SLV PEOPLE ENTER BUILDING 1.09 10. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) THIRD UNIDENTIFIED WHITE MAN SAYING: "I've just come to make sure that I've been registered with the British Embassy (sic). I've been called 'an enemy of the state' and I'm just making sure that if I need to evacuate, if I need to go somewhere, that everything's in order and I can get out."/CU PASSPORT (2 SHOTS) 1.29 11. EXT HIGH COURT 1.35 12. SLV SECURITY 1.37 13. MV/SV ZIMBABWEAN WAR VETERANS' LEADER CHENJERAI 'HITLER' HUNZVI GETS OUT OF CAR AND WALKS TOWARDS COURT TO ATTEND CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES FOR DISOBEYING RULING ORDERING WAR VETERANS TO LEAVE THE OCCUPIED WHITE FARMS (2 SHOTS) 2.01 14. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWEAN WAR VETERANS' LEADER CHENJERAI 'HITLER' HUNZVI SAYING: "I am not responsible for the farm invasions...I cannot comment. If you correctly hear what the president said, I have no powers to comment against the president's statement...I am not responsible." 2.36 15. SV HUNZVI ANSWERS HIS MOBILE TELEPHONE 2.41 ATLANTA, ZIMBABWE (APRIL 19, 2000) (REUTERS 16. SLV/SV FURNITURE STREWN OUTSIDE INCLUDING COMPUTER TERMINAL AND PHOTOGRAPH (3 SHOTS) 2.53 17. MV/SV SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S ZANU-PF PARTY HOLD MEETING (2 SHOTS) 3.06 18. SLV/TRACK OCCUPIERS CHASE AWAY A NEWS CREW (3 SHOTS) 3.27 19. SV POLICE SIT OUTSIDE FARM HOUSE 3.30 20. INT INTERIOR OF FARM HOUSE, WITH CHILD'S COLLECTION OF TEDDY BEARS ON SHELF (2 SHOTS) 3.39 21. SLV CHILD'S TRICYCLE OUTSIDE HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 3.46 22. SLV/MV ZANU-PF SUPPORTERS DANCE (2 SHOTS) 4.09 HARARE, ZIMBABWE (APRIL 18, 2000) (ZIMBABWE TV - NO ACCESS ZIMBABWE AND INTERNET) 23. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE: "Our present state of mind is that you (whites) are now our enemies because you really have behaved as enemies of Zimbabwe; that we are full of anger; our entire community is angry and this is why you have the war veterans now, you know, seizing land." 4.35 BANGKOK, THAILAND (APRIL 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 24. SLV BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK ENTERING ROOM AND BEING GREETED 4.43 25. CA CAMERAMAN 4.48 26. SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK SAYING: "We appear to have got an agreement from President Mugabe to return to dialogue and I am glad that we now have a date when his delegation will come to London for talks. We have always made it clear that we are willing to help fund a programme of land reform, but it has got to be one within the rule of law and it has got to help the real rural poor and there must be a stop to the illegal occupations which have brought this violence and deaths." 5.10 HARARE, ZIMBABWE (APRIL 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 27. MV UNIDENTIFIED WHITE WOMAN LEADS BLIND MAN AWAY FROM BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION BUILDING 5.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HARARE AND ATLANTA, ZIMBABWE/ BANGKOK, THAILAND
  • Country: Zimbabwe
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