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HARARE—Sources reported that on Thursday the Zimbabwe High Court will rule Thursday on an application by the country's police to overturn an order for the eviction of war veterans occupying white-owned farms on the grounds that it cannot be enforced. Attorney General Patrick Chinamasa told the court about 60,000 veterans of the 1970s liberation war were occupying 1,000 farms and were too many for the police force to handle. "At the end of the day any order issued by this court ordering the evictions will be unenforceable," he said in an application on behalf of the police. Supporters of President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF, which faces a tough election in May, have occupied hundreds of farms in a campaign for redistribution of land still mainly in white hands 20 years after independence from Britain in 1980. The Commercial Farmers' Union, which includes some blacks, recently won a court order for the eviction of people occupying farms, but police so far have declined to enforce it and Mugabe has endorsed their position.
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