Angolan Police Open Fire on Protesters
Several demonstrators were injured and one killed during a protest sparked by reports that security forces killed activists who had disappeared in 2012 and fed their bodies to crocodiles.
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Angola:
Demonstrators Shot By Police in Luanda
Maka, 23 November 2013
Angolan National Police, supported by Air Force helicopters, today brutally suppressed a demonstration called by the opposition party UNITA in memory of the political activists… Read more »
Police keep watchful eyes on demonstrators (file photo).
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Angola:
Presidential Security Fatally Shoots an Activist
Maka, 23 November 2013
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… Read more »
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Angola:
Activists Are Not Food for Crocodiles
Maka, 21 November 2013
The kidnapping and presumed killing of the Angolan political activists Alves Kamulingue and Isaías Cassule, in May 2012, is finally getting the attention it deserves from… Read more »
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Angola:
Opposition Urges Protest After Killing of Activists
VOA, 22 November 2013
Angola's main opposition party is calling for a mass demonstration Saturday to protest the abduction, torture and killing of two activists last year. Human Rights Watch has… Read more »
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Angola:
Officials Implicated in Deaths of Protesters
OSISA, 22 November 2013
Angolan authorities should prosecute all state security officials responsible for the killing of two protest organizers who have been missing since May 2012, according to Human… Read more »