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

12.   Mugabe ordered police not to remove the squatters from farms, insisting they were protesting unfair land ownership by whites dating to British colonial rule.

13.   Mugabe has called the occupation a justified protest against unfair land ownership by whites.

14.   Mugabe has described the land occupations as a justified protest against unfair land ownership by whites and has ignored six court orders declaring land seizures illegal.

15.   Mugabe says the occupations are a justified protest against unfair white land ownership.

16.   Mugabe had described the Hunzvi-led farm occupations as a justified protest against unfair land ownership by whites.

17.   Mugabe has called the occupation a justified protest against unfair land ownership by the white descendants of colonial-era settlers who originally seized black land without paying.

18.   Mugabe has condoned the occupations as a justified protest against unfair land distribution by whites.

19.   The increasingly unpopular president has described the occupations as a justified protest against unfair land ownership by the descendants of colonial era white settlers.

20.   With opposition mounting to his two decades of rule, Mugabe has backed the illegal occupations, arguing they are a justified protest against unfair land ownership.