Mozambique: Renamo accuses state of violating guerilla disarmament agreement

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Mozambique: Renamo accuses state of violating guerilla disarmament agreement

2:34 CAT | 07 Jul 2020

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Renamo on Tuesday accused the Mozambican government of violating the spirit of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) agreement by excluding officers from the main opposition party’s military arm from leading positions in the General Police Command (PRM).

The spokesman for the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), José Manteigas, told Lusa that the party had a legitimate expectation that officers from the organisation’s military arm be given leadership positions in the PRM last Saturday but were seconded to lower positions.

“We follow closely the deployment of the military of Renamo, but we criticise the fact that none of them is in a leading position in the PRM,” said José Manteigas.

He said this exclusion violates the spirit of the agreement on DDR signed with the government.

The ten Renamo officers appointed on Saturday will be placed in charge of police stations and in the traffic and border guard and the natural resources protection and environment police.

The officers were Renamo guerrillas and were integrated into the PRM at the end of last year, having undergone basic police training and pre-professional training.

After a symbolic start last year, the DDR was paralysed for several months and resumed on 4 June and will involve 5,000 members of the armed arm of the largest opposition party.

Since then 38 former guerrillas in Savane, 251 former guerrillas in Chibabava and another 303 in Dondo, in the central province of Sofala, have been demobilised.

Source: Lusa