MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS: Zimbabwe's black squatters who are occupying white-owned farms have found another target. They accuse black farm laborers of supporting the opposition to the government of President Robert Mugabe. Meanwhile, as Tim Ewart now reports, white farm owners are still under attack.</s>TIM EWART, ITN REPORTER (voice-over): More farm buildings were put to the torch today. More of the vital tobacco crop was ruined, and farm workers are now the main target of violence. This group was attacked after being accused of supporting the opposition party, the</s>MDC. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They said, you guys, you support them. You support the MDC. So we have to kill you today.</s>EWART: On this farm, the Forrester estate, another human drama was unfolding. War veterans who told us to stay away were holding the farm manager and two women hostage after invading the property with hundreds of armed followers. (on camera): This is the road to the Forrester estate. The war veterans and their followers now perceive journalists, particularly white foreign journalists, as the enemy. And we've been warned to go no further. (voice-over): This afternoon, the hostages were released. The farm manager and his girlfriend and the estate secretary, unhurt but terrified.</s>MICHELLE WILLIAMS, FARM SECRETARY: I had</s>EWART (on camera): Did you think that you might not get out alive?</s>WILLIAMS: Yes, often. Often last night.</s>EWART: It was that bad?</s>WILLIAMS: Yes, when you've got 1,000 people outside, and there are only three of you inside, not much you can do. You just know.</s>EWART (voice-over): For one group, a narrow escape. For another, the misery of continuing intimidation. Tim Ewart, ITN, Zimbabwe.
White Farm Owners And Black Laborers Still Under Attack In  Zimbabwe