Video showing death of woman by men in military uniforms shocks Mozambique

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A frame grab from video showing Mozambican soldiers shooting a naked woman on the side of the road. Amnesty International has just released its verification of the video, confirming the location, and the Mozambican government has expressed its own concerns about the killing.


A shocking video of the brutal beating and execution of a naked woman in northern Mozambique, who was shot 36 times by men in military uniforms, has cast a spotlight on alleged atrocities by the country’s armed forces in their battle with Islamist insurgents.


The video, verified by Amnesty International on Tuesday, shows the fleeing woman as she is pursued down a rural road by several men in the uniform of Mozambique’s army. After one man beats her with a stick, she screams and tries to protect herself. The men then shoot her repeatedly with assault rifles and walk away calmly from her dead body.


The video, which circulated widely on social media in Mozambique this week, is the latest evidence of escalating atrocities and violent abuses by soldiers in the Cabo Delgado region, where an armed insurgency has jeopardized the government’s control of a natural gas project that has attracted multibillion-dollar investments from European and U.S. energy companies.


Mozambique’s defence ministry said it was horrified by the “barbaric” incident, but it said the “authenticity” of the video must be investigated.


Amnesty International said it had verified the video was filmed in Cabo Delgado near the town of Awasse, where the Mozambique army had launched an offensive against the insurgents. Amnesty also verified the military uniforms and other evidence that the gunmen were soldiers. The video was likely filmed on Sept. 7 during the military operation, it said.




The men in military uniform, speaking Portuguese, refer to the woman as “al-Shabaab” – the local name for the insurgents, who have no connection to Somalia’s al-Shabab militia. “We’ve just killed al-Shabaab,” the men say as they walk away from the dead woman, according to Amnesty’s report.


“This horrendous video is yet another gruesome example of the gross human rights violations and merciless killings taking place in Cabo Delgado by the Mozambican security forces,” Deprose Muchena, the Amnesty director for East and Southern Africa, said in a statement on Tuesday.


He said the killing of the woman was consistent with Amnesty’s earlier findings of military crimes against detainees in northern Mozambique, including the attempted beheading and torture of prisoners, the dismemberment of alleged opposition fighters and the dumping of bodies in mass graves.


“It demonstrates a repeated and unrelenting pattern of crimes being committed by the Mozambican armed forces,” Mr. Muchena said, calling for a full investigation and the prosecution of the perpetrators.


Amnesty said it spoke to a military source in Cabo Delgado who provided a “bizarre justification” for the killing of the woman. The source said the woman had “cast a spell” on the Mozambican soldiers and refused to disclose the hideout of the insurgents, Amnesty said.






Human Rights Watch and Mozambique’s national human-rights commission, in separate statements this week, have also called for investigations of the reported abuses by Mozambican soldiers.


The alleged atrocities have become more common after the insurgents dramatically intensified their attacks in recent months. Mozambique’s army is reported to be poorly trained, inexperienced and badly equipped, allowing the insurgents to make gains.


In August, in a major setback for the government, the rebels captured the strategic port city of Mocimboa da Praia, which they still hold. The port is the gateway to a US$20-billion offshore gas project, led by the French multinational Total.


The gas boom in northern Mozambique has attracted a combined total of about US$55-billion in planned investments so far, potentially helping to lift the country out of deep poverty. But security for the project has become a major concern.


Since the insurgency began three years ago, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in Cabo Delgado. Including combatants on both sides, the death toll has climbed to more than 1,800 people. There are growing fears the conflict could spill over international borders to other countries in southern Africa.


Mozambique recruited military assistance from a Kremlin-linked Russian mercenary unit last year in an attempt to crush the insurgency, but instead the rebellion has continued to grow.




The South African government has said it “stands ready” to help Mozambique fight the insurgency, but it says it is still waiting for Mozambique to make a specific request for assistance. Analysts say the southern African bloc of countries, known as SADC, has shown little interest in joining the military battle.

 

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Not to mention isis is expanding in Mozambique.

Mozambique army is poor with crappy equipment but the army itself is corrupt, lack discipline also proper morale.

The whole thing is a clusterfck. Shows once again how a lot of African armies are poor a lot their soldiers are just good for being thugs.

Im really interested in South Africas intervention if they ever intervene. Wagner mercs are even getting their asses whopped there too. I think Russia does not care because Russia is ordering wagner mercs to secure resources I wont be surprised if Russia gets a military base in Mozambique. With isis continuing its insurgency in mozambique they might get what they want the Russians.
 
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According to some Twitter accounts, she belongs to al-Shabaab but still what kind of military is that?
 

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According to some Twitter accounts, she belongs to al-Shabaab but still what kind of military is that?

A lot of these conflicts are fcked up. In Cameroon, Cameroonian soldiers executed a women with her child. The soldiers accused of her being with boko haram. It was so screwed up and sad.

They are nothing more than thugs with guns. Seriously civilians are getting killed by both sides what a shitty situation. A lot of people dont realise what awful conflicts are happening in lots of African countries where people have lost their humanity. For us people living far away we just see it as meh it happens everyday its life there.
 

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