Christiane Amanpour interviews President Robert Mugabe (24 September 2009) on land reform (Thanks to Nkrumah for this)

President Mugabe has gotten many things wrong and he has been in power too long. But he is 100% correct on the land issue. The white Zimbabwean farmers were invaders, as were the settler-Zionists in Is -it-real (Israel) or African Americans in Liberia or the descendants of the white colonists in the Americas. (South Africa has a similar problem. A tiny minority of white elites controlling vast tracks of fertile land. No complaints from the west.) The journalist, Christiane Amanpour, an intelligent person, comes off as ignorant and biased. She wants to get back to the good ole days of white supremacy, and she pretends as if she has never heard of the Lancaster House Agreement that the Brits subsequently reneged on. Its pretty obvious that she is really only interested in the white farmers. And why is it that western journalists never got uptight about Prime Minister Ian Smith? Smith should have been brought up on war crimes, but he lived and died peacefully in Zimb after losing power. The very fact that he was not brought to book suggests that the "international community" (read: white governments) were uninterested in equity and justice and, perhaps more importantly, the  Zimb freedom fighters, even in victory, negotiated from a position of weakness.

As one writer noted after the interview, Amanpour squandered a great opportunity:

Amanpour failed to rise above the familiar frames of the western media’s analysis of Zimbabwe -- dictatorship, hunger, land, Roy Bennett and white farmers. These are part of the issues, but more of symptoms of a deeper problem which we hoped CNN would probe. We expected Amanpour to bring these issues to the interview but in a way that makes it impossible for Mugabe to waive them away so simply. We expected more facts, events and names. And they are many that Mugabe cannot run away from. [Source: newzimbabwe.com]

I skimmed it quickly, but this summary looks to be pretty good. It gives you some of the political context of Mugabe's so-called "land grab."