Mozambique: Memorial for no name woman murdered in Cabo Delgado. – Listen

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Mozambique: Memorial for no name woman murdered in Cabo Delgado. – Listen

5:02 CAT | 21 Sep 2020

Photo: Voa Portugues

“Every human being needs someone to cry for his or her death; this is a memorial of defiance, a memorial of demand.”

Mozambican feminist organisations have joined the chorus of indignation over the barbaric murder of a defenceless woman in the province of Cabo Delgado and asked for a concrete commitment on the part of the President of the Republic.

Nzira de Deus, executive director of ‘Fórum Mulher’, says the group wants Filipe Nyusi to commit to clarifying the incident.

“This is not the first time we express our outrage. We have already sent a letter to the Head of State calling his attention to the impact of the conflict on people’s lives, especially women,” the human rights organisation says.

The appeal goes out not only to the Mozambican government, but to international organisations as well, in view of the United Nations Human Rights Charter, activist Mayra Domingos adds.

The people are tired

Domingos insists on “recalling the international and regional commitments assumed by Mozambique, recalling the human rights frameworks which generated the creation of the United Nations itself, precisely the rupture with the culture of war which we are seeing in our country, with even refinement of its evil”.

Defence officials say the woman concerned was not executed by its troops, a claim which many question.

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Nzira de Deus says that conducting a serious investigation to clarify the case is the way forward. “The people are tired, sad, and feel abandoned, and this is a feeling that is not good for a country like ours, that tirelessly seeks to achieve peace,” she says.

A memorial of defiance

Forum Mulher [Women’s Forum] are holding a memorial as a way of honouring the unidentified woman who was murdered, and Maria José Artur, from WLSA Mozambique (Women and Law in Southern Africa) says that everyone should join the initiative.

“We may never know the name of the woman who died; maybe we will never know who she was, her family; we will not know the dreams she had, the projects she had for the future; we will not know anything about her, but we think this is a time to come forward and to show that are in mourning,” she said.

“Every human being needs someone to cry for his or her death; this is a memorial of defiance, a memorial of demand.”

Source: Voa Portugues