Mozambique: President promises to bring the perpetrators of incursions in Cabo Delgado to justice

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Mozambique: President promises to bring the perpetrators of incursions in Cabo Delgado to justice

3:13 CAT | 14 Apr 2020

Photo: O País

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi, yesterday condemned the armed attacks in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, promising to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“The Government strongly condemns the heinous and violent attacks and will continue to pursue all the murderers, bringing them, as is happening, to the bar of justice,” President Nyusi said.

The Mozambican head of state was speaking at the inauguration of the new president of the Administrative Court, Lúcia do Amaral, and the vice president of the Supreme Court, João Beirão.

The president called on the organs of justice to guarantee the rights of victims of armed violence in Cabo Delgado, calling it an attack on sovereignty.

“The judiciary is required to take timely and responsible action, always aimed at reaching the material truth and the safeguard victims’ rights in defence of our sovereignty in the first place,” Filipe Nyusi noted, calling on communities not to pay heed information intended to “share and create hatred between the populations and the defence and security forces”.

Cabo Delgado province has been the target of attacks by armed groups which international organizations classify as a terrorist threat, and which in two-and-a-half years had already killed at least 350 people, in addition to 156,400 people affected by loss of property or forced to abandon homes and land in search of safety.

At the end of March, the towns of Mocímboa and Quissanga were invaded by a group which destroyed infrastructure and hoisted their flag over a Defense and Security Forces of Mozambique barracks.

In a video of the event distributed on the Internet, an alleged ‘jihadist’ militant said the attacks in northern Mozambique were intended to impose Islamic law in the region.

This was the first message released by the authors of the attacks, and was recorded in one of the towns they invaded.

Source: Lusa