A/55/304 being carried out in the face of serious resource shortages on the part of the Police, it should further be noted. No impunity is encouraged or condoned in these or any other acts of violence in Zimbabwe. “The Government of Zimbabwe believes that the land issue cannot be resolved from a purely legalistic approach. It believes in a holistic approach, which will not only facilitate the equitable distribution of land among all the people irrespective of colour or creed, but which will also provide a permanent solution that will not postpone further the redistribution of land, as happened in 1979 at the Lancaster House Conference. Discussions between the commercial farmers and the war veterans have come up with a solution to the land issue, where a Land Commission will be set up to look into the equitable redistribution of land. “The media has deliberately taken President Mugabe’s remarks on the land issue out of context. He has never stated that ‘whites should leave Zimbabwe’, as you indicate in your letter. The President has called for only those whites who have failed to accept reconciliation to leave Zimbabwe if they so wish.” 25. The Special Rapporteur has taken note of the Zimbabwean Government’s explanations and has requested the latter to inform him of the outcome of the police investigations of the murder suspects and the charges against the 15 people arrested to date, as well as the verdicts reached in their trials. (b) Situation of the Dalits in India 26. The Special Rapporteur continued his consultations with the Indian Government with a view to observing the situation of the Dalits on the ground. The Indian Government considers that this issue is not one of racial discrimination, even though the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination holds the opposite view. The Special Rapporteur nevertheless hopes that the Indian Government will continue its efforts to promote the integration of the Dalits into Indian society and calls upon it to combat the violence perpetrated against them regularly in several states of the country. III. Contemporary manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 27. The Special Rapporteur would like to stress that the incidence of violent manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, which had been on the decline since 1997, has recently risen alarmingly in a number of countries. Subtle forms of racism and xenophobia also persist in people’s everyday lives in several countries. Ethnocentrism and the political exploitation of ethnicity are increasing disturbingly in various parts of the world, particularly in Africa (Great Lakes region) and Asia (Indonesia), where inter-ethnic wars are continuing and threats of ethnic warfare have arisen against a political backdrop. Far-right organizations, neo-Nazis and skinheads are remobilizing and, alarmingly and on a growing scale, are engaging in violent mass actions such as attacks on foreigners and people of colour and the desecration of Jewish cemeteries and monuments. There are two broad categories of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance: (a) racist or xenophobic violence and activities of far-right, neo-Nazi and skinhead organizations; and (b) racist propaganda on the Internet. A. Racist violence and activities of farright, neo-Nazi and skinhead organizations 28. During July and August, the international press reported a resurgence of racist and xenophobic violence in Germany, both in the east (former German Democratic Republic) and in the west, in such towns as Dessau, Usedom, Ludwigshafen, Eisenach, Gera, Gotha, Düsseldorf and Erfurt. A Mozambican was beaten to death in Dessau; a residence for asylumseekers was burned down in Ludwigshafen; Africans were beaten up in Eisenach by young people shouting Nazi slogans; the synagogue in Erfurt was attacked; and young neo-Nazis aged 16 to 27 years were jailed in Gera and Gotha (former German Democratic Republic) for having assaulted foreigners. 29. Most shocking to international public opinion was the 27 July attack on the Düsseldorf railway station, in which 10 members of a group of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, including six Jews, were 7