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Amnesty International: “Human Rights Violation in Mozambique Increases With Conflict in the North

Amnesty International: “Human Rights Violation in Mozambique Increases With Conflict in the North

The conflict between armed groups and government forces in northern Mozambique has increased human rights violations, committed by both sides, and worsened the humanitarian crisis in 2022, Amnesty International’s annual report reveals.

Terrorists from the group known locally as “Al-Shebab” (with no known connection of the group to the same in Somalia) continued to “burn villages, behead people and kidnap women and girls,” reads the report released this Monday, March 27, on the state of human rights in the world in 2022.

Amnesty International (AI) reports events such as the attacks on May 21 in Chicomo, Nguida and Nova Zambezia, where 10 decapitated corpses appeared and women and girls were kidnapped, and in June and September in Nampula and Niassa provinces.

According to the report, the government security forces also violated human rights, including “enforced disappearances, harassment and intimidation of civilians, and extortion.”

One of the cases highlighted in the report happened in the city of Pemba, in Cabo Delgado, where stationed soldiers “subjected civilians passing through the area to physical aggression, extortion, and robbery.”

The expansion of the armed conflict has aggravated the humanitarian situation, with 1.5 million displaced people in Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa provinces needing humanitarian assistance and protection due to the conflict, according to United Nations data.

In addition to these human rights violations, AI denounces the repression of the rights of peaceful assembly and expression by the Mozambican authorities, who are also trying to pass laws to “reduce civic space”.

In a peaceful protest of traders in the district of Gondola, Sofala, in August, “the police used live ammunition and shot and wounded three demonstrators,” and months earlier in Maputo “heavily armed police with dogs prevented a group of young people from holding a peaceful protest against tolls on the Maputo ring road,” the report’s authors exemplify.

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The various crises that Mozambique is going through are causing a “deep distrust” in the authorities, warns the human rights organization.

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