Keep Us Strong WikiLeaks logo

Currently released so far... 97115 / 251,287

Articles

Browse latest releases

Browse by creation date

Browse by origin

A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Browse by tag

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ETRD EAGR ETTC EAID ECON EFIN ECIN EINV ELAB EAIR ENRG EPET EWWT ECPS EIND EMIN ELTN EC ETMIN EUC EZ ET ELECTIONS ENVR EU EUN EG EINT ER ECONOMICS ES EMS ENIV EEB EN ECE ECOSOC EK ENVIRONMENT EFIS EI EWT ENGRD ECPSN EXIM EIAD ERIN ECPC EDEV ENGY ECTRD EPA ESTH ECCT EINVECON ENGR ERTD EUR EAP EWWC ELTD EL EXIMOPIC EXTERNAL ETRDEC ESCAP ECO EGAD ELNT ECONOMIC ENV ETRN EIAR EUMEM ENRGPARMOTRASENVKGHGPGOVECONTSPLEAID EREL ECOM ECONETRDEAGRJA ETCC ETRG ECONOMY EMED ETR ENERG EITC EFINOECD EURM EENG ERA EXPORT ENRD ECONEINVETRDEFINELABETRDKTDBPGOVOPIC EGEN EBRD EVIN ETRAD ECOWAS EFTA ECONETRDBESPAR EGOVSY EPIN EID ECONENRG EDRC ESENV ETT EB ENER ELTNSNAR ECHEVARRIA ETRC EPIT EDUC ESA EFI ENRGY ESCI EE EAIDXMXAXBXFFR EETC ECIP EIAID EIVN EBEXP ESTN EING EGOV ETRA EPETEIND ELAN ETRDGK EAIDRW ETRDEINVECINPGOVCS EPEC ENVI ELN EAG EPCS EPRT EPTED ETRB EUM EAIDS EFIC EFINECONEAIDUNGAGM EAIDAR ESF EIDN ELAM EDU EV EAIDAF ECN EDA EXBS EINTECPS ENRGTRGYETRDBEXPBTIOSZ EPREL EAC EINVEFIN ETA EAGER EINDIR ECA ECLAC ELAP EITI EUCOM ECONEFINETRDPGOVEAGRPTERKTFNKCRMEAID EARG ELDIN EINVKSCA ENNP EFINECONCS EFINTS ECCP ETC EAIRASECCASCID EINN ETRP EAIDNI EFQ ECOQKPKO EGPHUM EBUD ECONEINVEFINPGOVIZ ENERGY ELB EINDETRD EMI ECONEFIN EIB EURN ETRDEINVTINTCS EIN EFIM ETIO ELAINE EMN EATO EWTR EIPR EINVETC ETTD ETDR EIQ ECONCS EPPD ENRGIZ EISL ESPINOSA ELEC EAIG ESLCO EUREM ENTG ERD EINVECONSENVCSJA EEPET EUNCH ECINECONCS ETRO ETRDECONWTOCS ECUN EFND EPECO EAIRECONRP ERGR ETRDPGOV ECPN ENRGMO EPWR EET EAIS EAGRE EDUARDO EAGRRP EAIDPHUMPRELUG EICN ECONQH EVN EGHG ELBR EINF EAIDHO EENV ETEX ERNG ED
KMDR KPAO KPKO KJUS KCRM KGHG KFRD KWMN KDEM KTFN KHIV KGIC KIDE KSCA KNNP KHUM KIPR KSUM KISL KIRF KCOR KRCM KPAL KWBG KN KS KOMC KSEP KFLU KPWR KTIA KSEO KMPI KHLS KICC KSTH KMCA KVPR KPRM KE KU KZ KFLO KSAF KTIP KTEX KBCT KOCI KOLY KOR KAWC KACT KUNR KTDB KSTC KLIG KSKN KNN KCFE KCIP KGHA KHDP KPOW KUNC KDRL KV KPREL KCRS KPOL KRVC KRIM KGIT KWIR KT KIRC KOMO KRFD KUWAIT KG KFIN KSCI KTFIN KFTN KGOV KPRV KSAC KGIV KCRIM KPIR KSOC KBIO KW KGLB KMWN KPO KFSC KSEAO KSTCPL KSI KPRP KREC KFPC KUNH KCSA KMRS KNDP KR KICCPUR KPPAO KCSY KTBT KCIS KNEP KFRDCVISCMGTCASCKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KNNB KGCC KINR KPOP KMFO KENV KNAR KVIR KDRG KDMR KFCE KNAO KDEN KGCN KICA KIMMITT KMCC KLFU KMSG KSEC KUM KCUL KMNP KSMT KCOM KOMCSG KSPR KPMI KRAD KIND KCRP KAUST KWAWC KTER KCHG KRDP KPAS KITA KTSC KPAOPREL KWGB KIRP KJUST KMIG KLAB KTFR KSEI KSTT KAPO KSTS KLSO KWNN KPOA KHSA KNPP KPAONZ KBTS KWWW KY KJRE KPAOKMDRKE KCRCM KSCS KWMNCI KESO KWUN KPLS KIIP KEDEM KPAOY KRIF KGICKS KREF KTRD KFRDSOCIRO KTAO KJU KWMNPHUMPRELKPAOZW KEN KO KNEI KEMR KKIV KEAI KWAC KRCIM KWCI KFIU KWIC KCORR KOMS KNNO KPAI KBWG KTTB KTBD KTIALG KILS KFEM KTDM KESS KNUC KPA KOMCCO KCEM KRCS KWBGSY KNPPIS KNNPMNUC KWN KERG KLTN KALM KCCP KSUMPHUM KREL KGH KLIP KTLA KAWK KWMM KVRP KVRC KAID KSLG KDEMK KX KIF KNPR KCFC KFTFN KTFM KPDD KCERS KMOC KDEMAF KMEPI KEMS KDRM KEPREL KBTR KEDU KNP KIRL KNNR KMPT KISLPINR KTPN KA KJUSTH KPIN KDEV KTDD KAKA KFRP KWNM KTSD KINL KJUSKUNR KWWMN KECF KWBC KPRO KVBL KOM KFRDKIRFCVISCMGTKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KEDM KFLD KLPM KRGY KNNF KICR KIFR KM KWMNCS KAWS KLAP KPAK KDDG KCGC KID KNSD KMPF KPFO KDP KCMR KRMS KNPT KNNNP KTIAPARM KDTB KNUP KPGOV KNAP KNNC KUK KSRE KREISLER KIVP KQ KTIAEUN KPALAOIS KRM KISLAO KWM KFLOA
PHUM PINR PTER PGOV PREL PREF PL PM PHSA PE PARM PINS PK PUNE PO PALESTINIAN PU PBTS PROP PTBS POL POLI PA PGOVZI POLMIL POLITICAL PARTIES POLM PD POLITICS POLICY PAS PMIL PINT PNAT PV PKO PPOL PERSONS PING PBIO PH PETR PARMS PRES PCON PETERS PRELBR PT PLAB PP PAK PDEM PKPA PSOCI PF PLO PTERM PJUS PSOE PELOSI PROPERTY PGOVPREL PARP PRL PNIR PHUMKPAL PG PREZ PGIC PBOV PAO PKK PROV PHSAK PHUMPREL PROTECTION PGOVBL PSI PRELPK PGOVENRG PUM PRELKPKO PATTY PSOC PRIVATIZATION PRELSP PGOVEAIDUKNOSWGMHUCANLLHFRSPITNZ PMIG PREC PAIGH PROG PSHA PARK PETER POG PHUS PPREL PS PTERPREL PRELPGOV POV PKPO PGOVECON POUS PGOVPRELPHUMPREFSMIGELABEAIDKCRMKWMN PWBG PMAR PREM PAR PNR PRELPGOVEAIDECONEINVBEXPSCULOIIPBTIO PARMIR PGOVGM PHUH PARTM PN PRE PTE PY POLUN PPEL PDOV PGOVSOCI PIRF PGOVPM PBST PRELEVU PGOR PBTSRU PRM PRELKPAOIZ PGVO PERL PGOC PAGR PMIN PHUMR PVIP PPD PGV PRAM PINL PKPAL PTERE PGOF PINO PHAS PODC PRHUM PHUMA PREO PPA PEPFAR PGO PRGOV PAC PRESL PORG PKFK PEPR PRELP PREFA PNG PGOVPHUMKPAO PRELECON PINOCHET PFOR PGOVLO PHUMBA PRELC PREK PHUME PHJM POLINT PGOVPZ PGOVKCRM PGOVE PHALANAGE PARTY PECON PEACE PROCESS PLN PRELSW PAHO PEDRO PRELA PASS PPAO PGPV PNUM PCUL PGGV PSA PGOVSMIGKCRMKWMNPHUMCVISKFRDCA PGIV PRFE POGOV PEL PBT PAMQ PINF PSEPC POSTS PHUMPGOV PVOV PHSAPREL PROLIFERATION PENA PRELTBIOBA PIN PRELL PGOVPTER PHAM PHYTRP PTEL PTERPGOV PHARM PROTESTS PRELAF PKBL PRELKPAO PKNP PARMP PHUML PFOV PERM PUOS PRELGOV PHUMPTER PARAGRAPH PERURENA PBTSEWWT PCI PETROL PINSO PINSCE PQL PEREZ PBS

Browse by classification

Community resources

courage is contagious

Viewing cable 02HARARE2318, Zimbabwe: Reports of involuntary relocation of

If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:
  • The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
  • The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
  • The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.
To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #02HARARE2318.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
02HARARE2318 2002-10-22 07:20 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Harare
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

O 220720Z Oct 02
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 HARARE 002318 
 
DCHA/OFDA FOR KHANDAGLE, MARX, AND BORNS 
DCHA/FFP FOR LANDIS, BRAUSE, SKORIC, AND PETERSON 
AFR/SA FOR POE, FORT AND COPSON 
AFR/SD FOR ISRALOW AND WHELAN 
STATE FOR AF/S DELISI AND RAYNOR 
STATE/INR FOR LESLIE CURTIN AND WILLIAM WOOD 
NAIROBI FOR DCHA/OFDA/ARO FOR RILEY AND MYER 
REDSO/ESA/FFP FOR SENYKOFF 
NSC FOR DWORKIN 
PRETORIA FOR DCHA/FFP DISKIN, DCHA/OFDA BRYAN 
USDA/FAS HELM 
ROME FOR LAVELLE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID EAGR PGOV ZI
SUBJECT:  Zimbabwe: Reports of involuntary relocation of 
ex-commercial farm workers to Zambezi River basin 
 
REF: Harare 2310 
 
1. Summary: OFDA/Humanitarian Response Advisor in 
Zimbabwe has received unconfirmed but credible reports 
of forced relocations of a large group of ex-commercial 
farm workers. Post views this as an extremely serious 
development and is concerned that it may signal the 
beginning of a pattern of forced relocation and 
displacement that could affect a significant number of 
the estimated 1-1.5 million displaced farm workers and 
their families, many of whom the GOZ considers 
officially not to be Zimbabwean citizens.  While many 
commercial farm workers originate from other countries 
in the region, large numbers of them have been resident 
in Zimbabwe for several generations, have no 
documentation from their countries of origin and should 
be considered de facto Zimbabweans.  Reported 
relocations are apparently to remote sites close to 
borders from which relocatees may be encouraged to 
return to their countries of origin.  International 
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is also hearing 
stories of forced relocations and trying to gain access 
to the area.  OFDA advisor will continue to try to 
verify these reports directly including, if possible, 
travel to reported relocation sites to interview 
affected populations.  End Summary 
 
2. OFDA/Humanitarian Response Advisor (HRA) traveled 
with Ambassador Hall's group to northern Zimbabwe on 
October 10 to observe a food distribution and do 
reconnaissance of the area.  Ambassador Sullivan, USAID 
Mission Director and Mission Disaster Officer 
accompanied.  The event took place at the Chiweshi 
public school in the Muzarabani District on the Zambezi 
escarpment. 
 
3. In the course of the visit, OFDA/HRA met with a World 
Food Program (WFP) food monitor at the distribution who 
said that up to 5,000 farm workers and family members 
were being assembled in the Gaierezi area in the Zambezi 
valley.  The WFP food monitor said that some of the farm 
workers were trucked to these locations.  Two political 
jurisdictions, Chadereka and Dambakurima, were 
mentioned.  These are ward names which are political sub- 
jurisdictions of districts. 
 
4. The displacement and trucking operation was described 
as follows: New settlers take over the farms vacated by 
commercial farmers. Settlers insist on moving into the 
farm workers' houses and force them to vacate the 
premises.  Wanting the ex-farm workers and house 
occupants out of sight and out of mind, settlers force 
former occupants to board lorries for movement to remote 
sites in the Zambezi plain.  On arrival at relocation 
sites, they are unloaded.  According to the WFP monitor, 
it is the new farmers/settlers who were responsible for 
trucking the ex-farm workers out of the region and there 
is no clear evidence of direct Government of Zimbabwe 
involvement.  On arrival at the Zambezi plain, the 
displaced farm workers and their families must fend for 
themselves with whatever few personal possessions they 
were able to carry, no access to farmable land, no seeds 
and tools with which to begin farming, and no access to 
humanitarian assistance. 
 
5. OFDA/HRA, operating under concern that farm workers 
with no jobs and no food would begin to move somewhere 
(see septel), has for several weeks been trying to 
locate groupings of them in parts of Zimbabwe. 
Information developed on this trip with Ambassadors Hall 
and Sullivan is the first report of trucks being used to 
relocate ex- farm workers.  Note: if events as reported 
by the WFP monitor are true and accurate, based on an 
assumed lorry capacity of 50 people and a total number 
of 5,000 people moved, that would mean 100 lorry trips 
in total over a short period of time and signal a 
systematically planned event as opposed to a spontaneous 
action. 
 
6. In an effort to corroborate the report, OFDA/HRA put 
forward an urgent alert October 11 to the UNDP/Relief 
and Rehabilitation Unit (RRU), the WFP, ICRC, and local 
Zimbabwean groups seeking answers to the following 
questions: 
 
- Did this movement as reported indeed happen? 
- If so, how many people were involved? 
- Is there any indication that the GOZ was in any way 
involved in this movement? 
- What is known about the current condition of the 
people who were reported to have been moved? 
- If the report is true, is there any organization 
prepared to provide food or other necessary assistance? 
- Is this action being replicated anywhere else in the 
country? 
- Is there any significance to depositing these people 
close to the Mozambican border? 
 
7. On October 16, OFDA/HRA met with representatives of 
the non-governmental organizations Justice for 
Agriculture (JAG) and General Agricultural and 
Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) to try to 
confirm the October 10 information.  GAPWUZ officials 
advised that people had been or were being moved to 
these sites.  One GAPWUZ representative indicated that a 
relative from the area had noted a substantial increase 
in the number of farm workers in the area. She described 
the relocation area as "inhospitable."  Over the course 
of the week, JAG representatives asserted that the 
reports of trucking were true and speculated that the 
trucks used were from the GOZ District Development Fund 
(DDF), but this allegation has not been confirmed. 
 
8. OFDA/HRA is also exploring the possibility that these 
workers may have come from Guruve in the north west 
corner of Mashonaland Central adjacent to the Mozambique 
border.  Earlier unconfirmed reports from Justice for 
Agriculture asserted that some 2,500 farm workers in the 
Guruve area had been told that they must "get out or 
die." Based on an average family size of 6, this would 
mean that some 14,000 people in total could be involved. 
JAG representatives saw farm workers sitting alongside 
the road with their possessions September 25. 
 
9. Despite various efforts to locate them, the Guruve 
farm workers were never found.  OFDA/HRA and other 
humanitarian agencies now suspect that they could be 
among those relocated to the Chadereka and Danakurima 
areas.  OFDA/HRA will try to confirm whether these 
people were trucked using official GoZ District 
Development Fund (DDF) trucks.  DDF is responsible for 
supplying "new farmers" with the necessary inputs for 
the upcoming agricultural season and are essentially GOZ 
assets. 
 
10.  OFDA/HRA's concern is that ex-farm workers with few 
options are being moved to places near borders that are 
out of sight and therefore out of mind from 
international observers.  There is a high level of GoZ 
political control of these areas, which have few entry 
roads of significance.  ICRC is reporting suspicious 
signs of political control in the sense that people on 
the ground in the Muzarabani District were attempting to 
limit their access to the area.  Efforts are being made 
to determine if similar groups of people are showing up 
near the eastern Mozambique border north of Nyamaroda. 
 
11. Conservative estimates are that the total number of 
farm workers and family members is 1.0 to 1.5 million. 
If true, that would constitute nearly one out of every 8 
people in Zimbabwe.  According to GAPWUZ, approximately 
60% of ex-commercial farm workers are of foreign 
extraction, i.e., from Malawi, Mozambique, or Zambia and 
are without official legal documentation. However, as 
reported earlier in septel, most of these workers have 
been in Zimbabwe for several generations, have no 
remaining official connection to or documentation from 
their countries of origin, and should be considered de- 
facto Zimbabweans. 
 
12. Comment: Post considers reports of forced relocation 
of ex-commercial farm workers to be credible and will 
make every effort over the next week to verify 
information including an estimate of the magnitude of 
the problem.  To this end, OFDA/HRA will attempt to 
locate and conduct interviews directly with the affected 
populations at relocation sites.  JAG representatives, 
who have been briefed on how to negotiate their way into 
and out of the area, are planning to go there October 19 
and are expected back October 20. OFDA/HRA is planning 
to go to the area as well with Christian Care, the WFP 
food distributor in the area. If reports are true, the 
situation would constitute a very serious concern for 
OFDA and other international organizations providing 
humanitarian assistance in response to the crisis in 
Zimbabwe. Furthermore, forced relocation of ex-farm 
workers, many of whom the GOZ considers to be non- 
citizens, would constitute an extremely serious and 
negative development in the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe. 
 
13. OFDA/HRA will provide by septel a description of 
efforts to date to systematize information collection 
about the IDPs, inherent difficulties in collecting that 
information, role and position of the UNDP/Relief and 
Recovery Unit on the issue, and recommendations on 
necessary support from the international community to 
assist in this effort.  SULLIVAN