By Ricardo Dias
Maputo (MOZTIMES) – The Mozambican activist Wilker Dias has just begun criminal proceedings against the Minister of the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, and the General Commander of the Police, Bernardino Rafael, for the violent repression of demonstrators which has caused over 50 deaths, and hundreds of injuries.
In the legal document that Wilker Dias delivered on Thursday to the Attorney-General’s Office (PGR), he pointed out that “the State is responsible for the illegal acts of its agents, in the exercise of their duties (…) this being the case, those complained against, in their capacities as Minister of the Interior and General Commander of the Police, must be held responsible”.
In this 80-page document, to which MOZ TIMES has had access, Dias states that the various units of the Mozambican police (PRM) “violently repressed the demonstrations throughout the country”.
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