Of the 6,800 commercial farms in the hands of some 4,500 white farmers at independence, about 300 are still owned and actively farmed by them, with a few hundred more still in white hands but left unproductive while their ownership is under threat.Particularly wretched is the plight of black workers on the former white-run farms.
To the dismay of the Montenegrins playing host to them, the newcomers seemed unconvinced by the argument that Mr Milosevic's policies were responsible for their wretched plight.What the results showed overall was that neither side in the standoff over Montenegro, which pits westernisers against the more Serb-minded, can impose its will without running into some determined opposition.
One way or the other, she contracted HIV.Consigned to the Shalom hospice, a collection of wooden shacks in Churachandpur, in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, her plight is wretched.
White gold, they called it, the salt that made white men rich and black slaves wretched with a horrendous plight beyond all suffering in the salt pans of Grand Turk.
In this, so far at least, it has failed: about 1.1m of the province's 1.8m people have by now been driven from their homes, and in the past fortnight alone over 360,000 have fled the country.The immediate plight of these wretched refugees is, understandably and rightly, a pressing concern for western governments, as well as for the aid agencies trying to give them succour.
But he says that his own poor upbringing in rural west Texas helps him to understand the plight of those in Texas's most wretched border regions.
He hasn't turned his head from the plight of a boat full of wretched individuals looking for shelter, and then adding insult to injury by saying they threw their kids overboard first".
Consider the plight of the poor plaintiffs.
Organised crime, with little opposition from policemen, judges and politicians, has swept across the region.The plight of middle-aged professionals as well as ill-educated people in one-industry towns that have gone bust is wretched.
