Zimbabwe farm union says members still under siege

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) -- Zimbabwe's land invaders are wreaking havoc and disrupting vital agricultural production on farms despite government orders to police to clamp down on lawlessness, a farmers' union said Tuesday.

The Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) reported enforced work stoppages, threats of violence, poaching and orders to vacate farms from war veterans who have invaded almost 1,000 farms since February.

"The war vets (veterans) are now demanding their share of the land. The police are refusing to act," the CFU said in a statement.

The CFU said the war veterans were ignoring Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri's promises to union president Tim Henwood that there would be no more invasions, threats or lawlessness.

Yet the owner of a farm where school children were abducted and allegedly sexually molested by war veterans last week had been forced to leave his property, the CFU said.

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