I think the article says it all really.
Yes, it is wrong to intimidate/torture/deny human rights to people. But I cannot see any reason to have any other sympathy with the white farmers. In effect by government inaction and corruption which failed to settle the land question the white farmers have simply been granted an extra 20 or 30 years of a lifestyle to which they had no claim. They should count themsleves bloody lucky they got it at all.
I also agree that as a nation the UK has no real responsibilities to these people. Surely they must regard themselves as Zimbabweans in some sense? Why don't they just ride it out and try and build a new life? Fucking whingers!
What is really amazing is how short-sighted papers like the Mail are over issues like this. They quietly applauded as whole industries were wrecked in this country, putting hundreds of thousands out of work and wrecking their lives. Yet when a few thousand upper middle class ex-pats (who couldn't give a shit about their British heritage until it comes in handy) are forced to face social changes that almost everyone agrees are long overdue (albeit being mainpulated for political reasons) it is declared as some kind of scandal.
Notice that we did not hear a peep out of these ex-pats (or their cheerleaders in the press) about how terrible the government corruption was when it suited them and left them holding on to ill-gotten colonial gains.
then when the govt decides to stoke up the land redistribution issue for its own ends suddenly the corruption of Zimbabwean politics is an issue of vital importance to middle England.
It makes me fucking sick.

I guess anyone who bought themself a farm and a swimming pool in Zimbabwe was guilty of the punishable crime of 'receiving stolen goods', and so, knowing this, they should not be surprised when that property is taken away from them.

I do condemn the violence against them but I don't think it's any worse than any other of the condmemnable violence that takes place on a daily basis all over the world.