afrol News, 19 November - Zimbabwean authorities said they have been aware of what they called "several sinister plans by Britain to invade" their country.

Zimbabweans have been told that there is no cause for alarm or panic, as the government had been and is still operationalising a defence plan to counter such moves.

"We were also aware that short of a fully-fledged invasion, the British were and are still contemplating the elimination of our political leadership through a number of assassinations,” the government spokesman, George Chambara, told 'Sunday Mail'.

“Britain views Zimbabwe’s white community as an extension of its nation and the invasion would not have been about politics but about British interests”, he said.

Chambara's comments came on the heels of a story published by 'The Independent' that a British General Lord Guthrie had admitted advising the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair against invading the southern African country.

The British General failed to mention the specific date set aside for the invasion, but Chambara said the plan was supposed to be operational between 2001 and 2003. He said it was however quenched by fears of several factors: fears of the reaction by the Zimbabwean armed forces and the disagreement of the United States.

Relations between Zimbabwe and Britain [its former colonial power] was strained by the former's controversial land reform policy, which saw the seizure of majority lands in the hands of the minority white farmers of British origin.

By staff writer

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