21.   Mugabe maintains no compensation should be paid to the descendants of British settlers for land seized without payment by the settlers during the colonial era.

22.   Mugabe maintained that Britain should pay because some of the farmers are descendants of British settlers.

23.   On Friday she signed a historic compensation deal and formal apology to a group of tribes who lost vast tracts of land to British settlers last century.

24.   Squatters have occupied the properties, claiming rights to land farmed by descendants of British settlers.

25.   The deal is regarded as a precedent for another dozen tribal claims of illegal land confiscation by British settlers last century.

26.   The constitutional changes also would allow the government to seize land owned by white descendants of British settlers without paying compensation.

27.   The Maoris claim the land was stolen from their tribal ancestors by British settlers last century.

28.   The Mugabe-backed revisions called on Britain, the former colonial power, to pay compensation to landowners, mostly the descendants of British settlers.

29.   The reforms are in a report delivered to government Friday as part of a program to fix the sad plight of aborigines two centuries after British settlers first arrived.

30.   The terms of the treaty were neglected when British settlers faced famine and racial wars broke out.