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12:51 CAT | 01 Jun 2020
FILE- Mariano Nhongo (wearing a tie) and members of his military junta. [File photo: Voa Portugues]
The leader of the self-proclaimed Renamo Military Junta, Mariano Nhongo, on Friday (May 29) again exposed the rise in the kidnapping and murder of people suspected of links with the dissident group, after the alleged reactivation of ‘death squads’ in late 2019.
Nhongo said that several people suspected of supporting the group were abducted from their homes and the streets of Nhamatanda (Sofala) and Gondola (Manica) villages, both close to the areas where armed attacks attributed by authorities to the junta, and in some cases claimed by the group, have taken place.
“We are losing five to six people a day, captured and killed both during the day and during the night, innocent people who don’t know anything,” claimed the former military strategist of historic Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama. Nhongo was apparently speaking from the Gorongosa forests.
In military operations intended to capture him, Nhongo added, state forces, in addition to kidnapping and killing people, had destroyed huts and mills and stolen people’s animals.
“The government’s armed forces are violating the rights of the population,” he said.
He also alleged cases rape of women collecting water from rivers in Gorongosa. “The government is making a mistake with these abductions and murders, burning houses, seizing things from the population and raping women,” he added.
Nhongo reiterated that the group under his command would not hand over their weapons in the second phase of the disarmament process, due to be resumed in central Mozambique in the coming months.
By André Baptista
Source: Voa Portugues
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