A start to what? Agrees to compensate white farmers? Puh-lease. Just another unilateral give-away by the West to abet a criminal government violating their own constitution and laws. The crimes will still take place with only a little breathing space for the farmers (95% targeted) to get their stuff together and leave, as opposed to being murdered and looted/burned out. They could have been using the farmers own taxes to buy them out over time, but Mugabe would rather have an army in the Congo propping up some stooge and costing boku $$. A marvelous victory for the rule of law, civil and human rights!
GunLvr has it right. The best farms will once again go to the bigwigs in the ruling Zanu party (who already have the largest farms in the country) with the paid squatters and thugs replacing the farm workers and leaving them destitute. Amazingly our Western media (BBC in America tonight) continues to call them "war veterans" echoing the government lie.
"Believe you me, my friend, that is music in the ears of my white countrymen," Zimbabwe Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said.
< READ: "We now have an AGREEMENT to steal their land... and YOU will pay for it! He he!! Look! There's the new Mudenge Ranch! Believe you me." >
It is simply about corruption and political scapegoating to maintain an indefinite hold on power by a gang of racist, marxist crackpots who have been slowly strangling the golden goose they inherited for the past two decades. Mugabe reminded me of other mad dictators when he went to some agricultural conference for a week, to chinwag, while his largely agricultural economy is imploding. Mugabe = Nero
"Then the US taxpayers will step in with free food and more cash."
Right again Gunlvr! It's for the children. They are victims also!!