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Damn I can't believe I typed Fruit basket haha that's what it is now.
I'm not trying educate you but you seem to have issue admitting Zimbabwe the country murdered the white farmers. Mugabe was chosen by the people and the people supported the genocide of white farmers it wasn't concealed like the holocaust (although plenty of Germans knew) it was happening out in the open and we the western world were complicit in it just as much as the regular Zimbabweans who saw it and did nothing.
That's not quite how it happened though.
Land invasions only began in the 2000s, and the country voted against the constitutional reform that would have made those invasions legal. Mugabe and ZANU-PF decided to ignore the results of the referendum (and why not? By that point, democracy was already largely dead and voting was done more for appearances than anything meaningful) and he gathered revolutionary war veterans, their children/grandchildren and ZANU-PF loyalists and activists to march on farms and forcibly remove their white owners.
Also remember that during the land invasions, the first and most numerous people to be killed where not white farm owners, but black farm workers. Farms were lain siege to and it was average black Zimbabweans on the front lines, fighting state loyalists in an attempt to defend their employers' farms and, by extension, their own livelihoods.
The UK didn't quite do nothing... but, yeah, I feel like they could have done a hell of a lot more than they did.
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