JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE 124 ____________________________________________________________________ up the inhabitants and took them back to the farms from which they had been displaced. Their conditions there were very bad and war veterans allegedly harassed them and beat up some of them. Some of them drifted back into town. The Trust made an application to the High Court requesting that the Trust be allowed to assist displaced farm workers without interference. This matter was heard by Mr Justice Garwe. Since then the Trust had been looking after around 150 farm workers and their families at a tented camp on church-owned land at Ruwa. This site was not large enough for farming operations, so the Trust decided to find some farmland on which to place the workers so that they could grow crops and earn some money for themselves. The Trust says that it therefore rented a farm at Mazowe for this purpose. This farm was owned by a white farmer, but government had taken no steps to acquire the farm under the Land Acquisition Act. The plan was to establish a camp for the refugees half way up a hill on the farm and for the workers housed there to farm the land below the hill. The camp was to be called the “Restoration of Hope Camp”. The dignity of the workers was to be restored by encouraging productive work and selfreliance. The workers, many of whom had been traumatised, would be given care and counselling and would be told about the message in the Scriptures. Mr Gumeze, a church elder with missionary experience in Mozambique was to be placed in charge of the camp. The Trust had sent an advance party of 17 farm workers to dig pit latrines at the camp site. They were given tents for shelter and picks and shovels to dig the latrines. During the week starting 26 August 2002, the police raided the camp, arrested the workers and took them to Bindura. They appeared before a magistrate on a charge of undergoing military training in contravention of the Public Order and Security Act and they were remanded until 17 September 2002. The charge sheet alleged that the accused persons were young men from all around the country and that they were undergoing military training at the campsite. It alleges that they were digging trenches and not pit latrines. On 3 September 2002 Mr Gumeze was also arrested and was initially charged with training terrorists in contravention of the Public Order and Security Act. That charge