President Nyusi says some of the media conceals Renamo atrocities

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President Nyusi says some of the media conceals Renamo atrocities

1:45 CAT | 16 Aug 2016

O País / President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi

Speaking in Macate District on Sunday, President Nyusi said that he did not find the intensification of attacks attributed to Renamo strange, because Afonso Dhlakama’s party had always acted like this. “I am not surprised, because we know what Renamo is like. The opposite (not attacking) is what we find strange. Renamo has always attacked everything: wealth, animals in the woods, people’s fields. Now it is extorting money. These are not things that the government or the people are inventing,” said Filipe Nyusi.

However, some elements of the media, the country’s top office-bearer said, hide Renamo atrocities. Nyusi said that he respected editorial freedom, but condemns invention.

“We are free and each one should say what he wants, based on their editorial line. We understand this and we currently have freedom of expression,” the head of state said, arguing that the media is free to disclose the information, “provided they do not hide nor invent what is not the case. But if they choose to say nothing, there is no problem”.

Nyusi said that in the rallies he held in the districts of Macossa, Mossurize Vanduzi and Macate, people argued that the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) should not be removed from the administrative posts where they are stationed, because they are defending the people. “The people answered in chorus: ‘No!’ And they are asking for the presence of the Defence and Security Forces in administrative posts, localities and neighbourhoods.”

Source: O País