'This Is My Home'

Newsweek, August, 2002 by Tom Masland

Alan Burl is a second-generation farmer in Zimbabwe. He grew up on Mushangwe Estate in the Ruzawi River area, about 70 miles east of the capital, Harare, and led the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union from 1989 to 1991.

Burl, 55, was one of some 2,900 white farmers ordered off their land on Aug. 8 as part of a radical government land-expropriation program. About 200 farmers have since been arrested for refusing to comply with the new law, which has drawn criticism from political leaders around the world. Earlier this week, senior U.S. State Department officials used some of their strongest language yet to condemn the Zimbabwe government, saying that President Robert Mugabe won re-election through a "fraudulent" vote last March and that his policies were helping to spread...

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