In Mozambique, at least thirty dead since the start of the electoral protests, according to HRW

At least thirty people have been murdered in Mozambique since the beginning of the demonstrations denouncing fraud during the October 9 elections, officially won by the ruling party, according to a count by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) broadcast on Friday, the 8th. November to the France Agency. -Press (AFP).

“At least thirty people were murdered between October 19 and November 6 inclusive throughout the country”a HRW spokesperson told AFP. This report does not include Thursday, marked by a large march in Maputo dispersed by police and army.

Maputo’s only central hospital “Three deaths were recorded related to the demonstrations” on Thursday, his spokesman Dino Lopes announced during a press conference on Friday. The latter did not specify whether they were protesters or the origin of the fatal injuries. This report does not take into account deaths recorded in other hospitals in the capital.

According to the Mozambican NGO Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), five people “They were shot to death by the police” in Maputo on Thursday.

“Missing”

Thousands of followers responded to the call of the main opposition Venancio Mondlane, who claims electoral victory at the expense of the party in power for almost half a century in this southern African country.

Three members of the Podemos party, which Venancio Mondlane supports, are also “missing”according to the president of this political party, Albino Forquilha. He left the province of Zambezia to participate in the march in Maputo, “they were harassed and have since disappeared”he said during a news conference on Friday.

Frelimo, at the head of the country since the independence of Mozambique in 1975, obtained more than 70% of the votes in the general elections, the “The most fraudulent since 1999” according to the anti-corruption NGO Public Integrity Center (CIP).

The European Union observation mission reported irregularities before, during and after the vote, including “unjustified alterations of results”.

Since the murder of two opponents in an ambush on a street in the capital on October 19, Venancio Mondlane has left the country and is now outside the African continent, he told AFP, fearing for his safety.