Angola: Presidential Security Fatally Shoots an Activist

23 November 2013
analysis

Manuel de Carvalho "Ganga", an activist in the Angola opposition party CASA-CE, was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning, allegedly by soldiers of the Presidential Security Unit (USP). He was shot shortly after midnight in the Luanda neighbourhood of Coqueiros, near the Presidential Palace. According to a statement from CASA-CE, he had been posting pamphlets about the deaths of Isaías Cassule and Alves Kamulingue, two activists who disappeared last year and who were recently revealed to have been killed by the security forces.

An eyewitness, named as António Baião, described the circumstances of the killing. "We were eight young people, including the deceased. The soldiers surprised us and ordered us to stop what we were doing, and made us stand still on the pavement with their guns pointed at us for about 45 minutes." He said that a vehicle arrived on the scene with more soldiers, whereupon one of the soldiers shot Ganga twice in the upper body.

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