'Murdered white Zimbabwean farmers not worth as much publicity'

The Deputy Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Jesimen Chipika, has said white commercial farmers killed at the height of farm invasions in 2000 were too few to warrant the wide media coverage they got at home and abroad.

Chipika said this at the launch of the book "Towards Democratic Developmental States in Southern Africa" in which she contributed a highly controversial Chapter on Zimbabwe.

"The killing of the white commercial farmers during the land reform was not worse than the killings in South Africa. There were just four or so farmers who were killed and I don't know why we got bad publicity for it," Chipika told the astounded guests at the launch.

According to NewZimbabwe.com, Chipika was trying to justify the bloody land evasions that took place in 2000 which saw hundreds of former white commercial farmers booted out of their farmers, leaving all their belongings, including farming equipment and household furniture.