61. A constitutional amendment rejected by voters in February but passed by Parliament in April allows the government to seize the white-owned land without paying compensation. 62. Croatia clearly prefers to reclaim the land without force. 63. David Bar-Illan, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suggested Friday that there would be no handover of land without a PNC vote. 64. He believes owners in the area - absentee or not - want to force the farmers off the land without having to evict them. 65. He again threatened to use a new constitutional amendment to seize white-owned land without compensation. 66. He was arrested inside the village by police and charged with entering enclosed land without authority. 67. In addition, titles are often in dispute because a series of dictators allocated land without regard for previous arrangements. 68. Jerusalem officials said the houses were built on public land without permits. 69. More than a dozen St. Thomas farmers who had tilled government land without permits must uproot themselves thanks to the lame-duck local Legislature. 70. Mugabe has called the land occupations a justifiable political protest against the descendants of white settlers who occupied land without paying for it during the colonial era. |