Jabou:
As an African, it is very easy for me to concur with the above statements, but
there is something about taking the law into your hands..vigilante that does not
sit well with me
What happen to going through the justice system, or some sort of legal framework
to handle the situation. I have a serious problem with Mugabe's handling of this
issue.

Musa Jeng
Jabou Joh wrote:

> In a message dated 5/2/00 6:29:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> << Folks,
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>  I love this article.
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> Me too Madiba.
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> The fact that these White landowners who just waltzed into Africa and siezed
> land that belongs to Africans are asking for compensation is beyond belief. I
> have always said that if they want to be compensated for stolen African land
> , then they should be paid by the ones who enabled the uninvited illegal
> occupation , the British government.No other agreement is required.
>
> What irony for  London to have the audacity to lay down conditions to boot.
> So long as we have these absentee owners of African land, we are just
> perpetrating colonialism from a distance.If someone stole your land and
> imposes themselves on you, and then finally leaves  but keeps your land, they
> have not really given you a thing back, and we are deluding ourselves. What
> is even more amazing is that we in Africa continue to abide by these
> ridiculous arrangements rather than just taking our land back and referring
> any illegal claimants to the sources that gave them something they had no
> right to give in the first place.
>
> It is no surprise that the Western World is in cohoots on this one, as they
> always are when it comes to matters relating to Africa. Most of them are
> sitting on  land that was illegally gotten, and supporting anything contrary
> to what the British are doing in Africa will be a self endictment.However,
> the solution lies not with the land grabbers and illegal occupants, but in
> the hands of those whose lands were stolen. All they need to do is simply
> reclaim it because no one else is going to do it for them.
>
> Jabou Joh
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