According to him, a “strong police presence” was felt in the Imaculada parish, “where prayers at the morning mass were said under the suspicious watch of the “anti-mutinies”, as well as at various points in the city where a Mpalabanda-organized march for peace in the enclave was due to pass.” The march was forbidden by three successive letters written by the Provincial Government, “signed respectively by Governor Aníbal Rocha, his deputy, António Goma (who claims to be acting governor) and by the local police commander, deputy commissioner Simão Tomás Queta, who curiously also entitles himself “acting governor”. “The surveillance vigil carried out by the ‘anti-mutiny’ forces lasted through last night until today, keeping the people prisoners in their own homes.”

Raul Danda states that ever since the 25th of January, the projected date for the start of the program organized by Mpalabanda to commemorate 121 years of the Simulambuco treaty, “the regime put its forces out on the streets to intimidate, instill terror and even to assault whoever dared step outside to demonstrate for peace”.

According to the spokesperson of MACC, since Friday night, the “ninjas” – as the anti-mutiny forces are also known – “were also patrolling the house of Agostinho Chicaia, Chair of the Association,” “Yesterday morning, following the lifting of the seige, the deputy chairperson was `visited´ by a police agent who invited him to go to the Provincial Directorate for Criminal Investigation (DPIC) to speak with its acting director, Agostinho António Agostinho, who was give him instructions, though he never specified what kind”. Faced with the former’s refusal, António Agostinho himself went to the house of Marcos Mavungo, accompanied by another policeman. The deputy chairperson of Mpalabanda not only refused to accompany them to the DPIC but told them, loud and clear, that he would not allow himself to be intimidated by anyone, whoever it may be, not even by José Eduardo dos Santos (President of Angola) himself.”

Pregnant woman assassinated

The spokesperson of MACC also denounced last Friday that the government army carried out “yet another violation of human rights” in Cabinda.

“It happened in Dinge, when a soldier opened fire on a lorry in which were several civilians, traveling to Ncutu (municipality of Mbucu-Nzau, Mayombe) to sell their products.” The source revealed that the shots wounded two civilians, “Elisée Khonde Muanda, 28 years old and eight months pregnant, and Paulo Conde, 25 years old”.
The pregnant lady did not survive; she finally died Saturday at dawn. “Elisé Muanda leaves behind her husband Panfilo, from Ncutu, and little Elisabeth Conde, who is eight years old”.

Paulo Conde “is still struggling between life and death, in the intensive care unit of Cabinda Central Hospital, where the two victims were transported to, following these acts of barbarism carried out by FAA soldiers, whose identity and whereabouts are as yet unknown.”

“Even so, government authorities maintain there are no human rights violations in Cabinda”, concluded the MACC spokesperson.

Translated into English by UNPO

Source: Ibinda. com