TY - BOOK AU - Laurie, Alexander Charles. TI - The land reform deception: political opportunism in Zimbabwe's land seizure era SN - 9780190680527 U1 - 333.316LAU PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Fast Track Land Reform Programme (Zimbabwe) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized commercial farms using illegal and violent methods against a largely unarmed population of farmers and farm workers. Robert Mugabe's government began the seizures on a small, targeted scale in an effort to suppress political opposition groups, but they soon escalated into an out-of-control frenzy targeting all farms in the country ER -