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24th November 2013, 01:40
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Angola police fire teargas again
2013-11-23 22:45
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Luanda - Angolan police fired tear gas and warning shots on Saturday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrating in the capital against the disappearance and possible murder of two anti-government activists.
The ruling MPLA party this week accused the main Unita opposition group of promoting "chaos and anarchy" with its plans for nationwide rallies to tap into public anger in Africa's number two oil producer at the two disappearances.
Prosecutors said last week that Isaias Cassule and Antonio Alves Camulingui, who were involved in organising protests by former presidential guards to demand payment of wage arrears, had been kidnapped and possibly murdered in May 2012.
In the capital, demonstrators were met by *******es of heavily armed riot police, some on horseback, who charged the crowds when youths started throwing stones.
Former rebel group Unita lost a 27-year civil war to the MPLA in 2002 and has since been trounced in two elections.
It has long accused President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of suppressing human rights and using excessive violence to clamp down on dissent during his 34-year rule.
The MPLA said dos Santos had ordered an investigation into the disappearances and all those found responsible would be punished.
The MPLA also alleged that Unita has been inspired by opposition Renamo guerrillas in Mozambique, another former Portuguese African colony, who have staged attacks in recent months after two decades of peace following a devastating 1975-1992 civil war.
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http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Angolan-cops-routinely-beat-street-hawkers-HRW-20130930-3
Angolan cops routinely beat street hawkers – HRW
2013-09-30 17:04
Luanda - Angolan police frequently beat and extort street vendors, especially women and children, who are falling victim to a government push to stamp out the informal sector, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
The New York-based rights group said the abuses include arbitrary arrest and were most likely to happen to the thousands of women known as 'zungueiras', many of them pregnant or carrying children, who eke out a living in the capital, Luanda.
Africa's second biggest oil-producer after Nigeria, Angola has posted rapid growth since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002, but long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is routinely accused of doing too little to fight poverty or respect human rights.
"Street traders in Luanda experience daily roundups by police and government inspectors who routinely use excessive force and subject traders to humiliating and degrading treatment," the group said in a report.
Requests for comment from the government and police went unanswered.
HRW said the abuse had increased since October 2012, when the government announced measures to end informal trading by removing hawkers from the streets, registering them, and moving them to new or renovated formal markets.
Many vendors want to obtain licences but cannot do so as they do not have identity cards, while those who have applied for the permits found the process bureaucratic, opaque and inaccessible, it added.
Journalists, activists and witnesses who seek to document the abuses in what is one of Africa's most authoritarian states have also been harassed and arrested, it said.
The rights group urged the government to end the abuse, which also involves government inspectors, discipline those responsible and supervise further inspections.
Dos Santos has been in power since 1979 and has dominated elections since the end of the war. He has promised to distribute Angola's wealth and create jobs in an economy which remains heavily dependent on oil.
I wonder if there still exist any ultra-maoists who defend the government of this Chinese oil plantation.
Angola police fire teargas again
2013-11-23 22:45
http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/1995/04db31d875a24ca09b9e0a8bdab06002.jpg
Luanda - Angolan police fired tear gas and warning shots on Saturday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrating in the capital against the disappearance and possible murder of two anti-government activists.
The ruling MPLA party this week accused the main Unita opposition group of promoting "chaos and anarchy" with its plans for nationwide rallies to tap into public anger in Africa's number two oil producer at the two disappearances.
Prosecutors said last week that Isaias Cassule and Antonio Alves Camulingui, who were involved in organising protests by former presidential guards to demand payment of wage arrears, had been kidnapped and possibly murdered in May 2012.
In the capital, demonstrators were met by *******es of heavily armed riot police, some on horseback, who charged the crowds when youths started throwing stones.
Former rebel group Unita lost a 27-year civil war to the MPLA in 2002 and has since been trounced in two elections.
It has long accused President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of suppressing human rights and using excessive violence to clamp down on dissent during his 34-year rule.
The MPLA said dos Santos had ordered an investigation into the disappearances and all those found responsible would be punished.
The MPLA also alleged that Unita has been inspired by opposition Renamo guerrillas in Mozambique, another former Portuguese African colony, who have staged attacks in recent months after two decades of peace following a devastating 1975-1992 civil war.
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http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Angolan-cops-routinely-beat-street-hawkers-HRW-20130930-3
Angolan cops routinely beat street hawkers – HRW
2013-09-30 17:04
Luanda - Angolan police frequently beat and extort street vendors, especially women and children, who are falling victim to a government push to stamp out the informal sector, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
The New York-based rights group said the abuses include arbitrary arrest and were most likely to happen to the thousands of women known as 'zungueiras', many of them pregnant or carrying children, who eke out a living in the capital, Luanda.
Africa's second biggest oil-producer after Nigeria, Angola has posted rapid growth since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002, but long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is routinely accused of doing too little to fight poverty or respect human rights.
"Street traders in Luanda experience daily roundups by police and government inspectors who routinely use excessive force and subject traders to humiliating and degrading treatment," the group said in a report.
Requests for comment from the government and police went unanswered.
HRW said the abuse had increased since October 2012, when the government announced measures to end informal trading by removing hawkers from the streets, registering them, and moving them to new or renovated formal markets.
Many vendors want to obtain licences but cannot do so as they do not have identity cards, while those who have applied for the permits found the process bureaucratic, opaque and inaccessible, it added.
Journalists, activists and witnesses who seek to document the abuses in what is one of Africa's most authoritarian states have also been harassed and arrested, it said.
The rights group urged the government to end the abuse, which also involves government inspectors, discipline those responsible and supervise further inspections.
Dos Santos has been in power since 1979 and has dominated elections since the end of the war. He has promised to distribute Angola's wealth and create jobs in an economy which remains heavily dependent on oil.
I wonder if there still exist any ultra-maoists who defend the government of this Chinese oil plantation.