The leader of Zimbabwe's war veterans told white farmers on Saturday to accept the seizure of their land for black resettlement or risk violence. Addressing supporters after the launch of a government scheme to transfer land to black peasants, Chenjerai Hunzvi said all targeted farms must be redistributed in two weeks. "We want all the farms that we want for our people," Hunzvi said to wild cheers from about 3,000 liberation war veterans. "We want to warn them (farmers) that if they continue saying they are offering so many farms to the government, they will be offering themselves for six-feet down," he said, using a metaphor for serious trouble or death. He accused the country's white farmers of trying to sabotage the land redistribution process by appealing against the seizure of about 500 of 804 farms selected by the government. The white Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) says its members are contesting the compulsory acquisition of certain farms but have offered to sell 600 others for the resettlement programme. Hunzvi vowed the veterans would remain on the land they have occupied since February and would not move onto the 200 farms -- covering one million hectares -- acquired for the launch phase of the programme. Peasants, including war veterans, have taken over around 1,000 farms since the invasions began. "If the government is going to delay taking the land, we will take it. It must be made clear to the CFU that we want our land," he added, saying court challenges would not help. "There is no compromise...I don't want to give my government ultimatums but I am saying in two weeks’ time." Five white farmers were among at least 31 people killed earlier this year in an upsurge of violence before parliamentary elections last month.