The main Mozambican opposition and former television presenter, Venancio Mondlane, on Monday, November 11, called his followers to three new days of demonstrations starting on Wednesday and “fend” after the proclaimed victory of the ruling party.
“Wednesday the 13th, Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th we will paralyze all activities”announced during a live broadcast on social networks Venancio Mondlane, who claims electoral victory in this southern African country and denounces fraud for the benefit of Frelimo, the party in power since independence in 1975.
After a huge march with deadly results in the capital, Maputo, on Thursday, the presidential candidate invoked the “right of self-defense in all its powers” protesters in the future.
“People have the right to defend themselves when they are killed”
“People have the right to defend themselves when they are killed. That is why on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the people will defend themselves with all possible and imaginable weapons.”warned, from outside, who he said joined for security reasons.
At least thirty people have died in post-election violence since October 19 and in the murder of two opposition figures in a street ambush in Maputo, according to a tally by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) before the march. on Thursday that caused new deaths. victims.
According to the Mozambican NGO Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), five people “They were shot to death by the police” Thursday in Maputo.
This time, Mondlane, 50, is calling on his activists to march in provincial capitals, at borders and in ports. In his view, the Maputo corridor, which links the capital’s port with its South African neighbor, has been silent since the beginning of the crisis, except to ask “calm and restrained” last Wednesday.
“More than 1,500 trucks arrive from South Africa with minerals to the port of Maputo”launched Venancio Mondlane, asking the “path” of“stop all trucks and paralyze activity”.
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The electoral commission attributed 20% of the votes to the opponent in the October 9 elections, the “The most fraudulent since 1999” according to the anti-corruption NGO Public Integrity Center (CIP) and gave more than 70% of the votes to the Frelimo candidate.