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O País / Bento Sabão escaped kidnapping, interrogation and shooting in Manica and now claims policemen in plainclothes have tried to abduct him from Maputo's central Hospital
‘Renamo member’ Benedito Sabão escaped death in Manica after being kidnapped, interrogated and shot down in a hail of bullets and then rescued by the Mozambican Human Rights League. The injured man was transferred to Maputo for treatment but says he is still not out of danger, claiming that he is being hunted down.
Sabão, who comes from Catandica in Manica province, was a Renamo guerilla during the 16-year civil war, but says he is now dedicated to politics only.
According to Human Rights League president Alice Mabota, he was kidnapped and sent for interrogation, after which he was taken into the jungle and shot in the arm and leg. He survived, and was brought to Maputo for treatment in a secret Human Rights League scheme.
Even after surgery and recovering well, Sabão says he still lives in fear. By his own account, plainclothes policemen have been seen in Maputo Central Hospital at night, and attempts to remove him from hospital have been foiled thanks only to calls to the Human Rights League made by other patients in the ward.
Human Rights League president Mabota says the episode is proof of the existence of death squads operating in the country.
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