1.   Moreover, they have vocal supporters who have disrupted meetings and who have promised to challenge the city with force if the squatters are removed.

2.   Mugabe is flouting court orders to remove squatters who have illegally occupied hundreds of white-owned farms.

3.   Mugabe, who supports the continuing invasions of white-owned farms by black squatters, has flouted several court orders to remove the squatters.

4.   The farmers union had filed suits against the government for failing to remove black squatters, and officials promptly took a tougher line against the farmers.

5.   The project has called in city homeless authorities to remove squatters on the property and find shelter for them, Pereira said.

6.   By law, squatters can be removed only if a relocation site is provided.

7.   Dalton had frequently asked local authorities to remove the squatters from his land, but Costa Rican law permits lengthy legal proceedings before squatters can be evicted.

8.   Government officials say they are removing the squatters to give slum dwellers a decent and safer place to live.

9.   He instructed police to help remove the squatters and to ignore any counter-orders from President Robert Mugabe.

10.   Mugabe has ordered police not to remove illegal squatters from white-owned farms, insisting land-hungry blacks are protesting unfair land ownership by whites.