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Mozambique: FDS confirms murder of 52 young people in Xitaxi, Muidumbe – Noticias
11:08 CAT | 21 Apr 2020
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The Mozambican Defence and Security Forces (FDS) yesterday confirmed the murder of 52 young people in the village of Xitaxi, Muidumbe district, Cabo Delgado province, by elements who have been carrying out attacks against civilian and military targets in the region, Noticias reports today.
The massacre occurred in the first week of April when, according to the spokesman for the Joint FDS Command, Orlando Mudumane, the victims refused to join the insurgents, who have launched attacks in northern districts of Cabo Delgado since October 2017.
“Recently, the malefactors tried to recruit young people to join their ranks, but there was resistance on the part of the youth. This provoked the wrath of the malefactors who indiscriminately killed, cruelly and diabolically, 52 young people in the village of Xitaxi, district of Muidumbe,” Mudumane said.
The FDS has called on young people to resist attempts to make them join the group.
Mudumane said that the FDS urged all stakeholders to cooperate in the fight against the insurgents sowing terror and mourning and provoking a general feeling of insecurity in the northern districts of Cabo Delgado.
He added that the FDS strongly condemned these barbaric and cowardly acts, and reiterated the FDS’s determination, readiness and total commitment to the fight against the insurgents and the restoration of public order and security throughout the country.
“The FDS has been intensifying operations against the insurgents, with a view to neutralising them and holding them accountable for the heinous criminal acts they have perpetrated in that part of the country,” he said.
Source: Noticias
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