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Rwandan refugees on trial in Matola, Mozambique
7:40 CAT | 05 Apr 2017
The Maputo provincial court, sitting in the southern city of Matola, on Tuesday began the trial of three Rwandan refugees, accused of plotting to assassinate the President of the Rwandan Community in Mozambique, Louis Baziga.
According to the trial report in Wednesday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”, the three accused are a Pentecostal pastor, trader and former soldier, Diomede Tuganeyeze, trader Benjamin Ndagilijimana, and another trader and former soldier, Revocat Karemangingo. All three are living in Mozambique as refugees.
They are accused of conspiring to murder Baziga, for political motives, and for control of the church of which they are all members. This church, styling itself the Pentecostal Revival Church in Mozambique, has its headquarters in the Matola suburb of Machava, and Baziga and the three alleged plotters are all founder members.
According to the prosecution, the would-be assassins hired a Mozambican police officer, working at the Maputo Provincial Command, to murder Baziga, and promised to pay him 600,000 meticais (about 9,080 US dollars, at current exchange rates).
But the policeman, instead of obeying the instructions of the conspirators, went to Baziga and warned him.
The trial soon ran into snags because the accused do not speak good Portuguese. Since they could not understand what was being said, and no translator was available, the court ordered that the trial should only continue on 6 June.
Source: AIM
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