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Mubiala Victor, brother of the 33 -year -old victim Silvi Mubiala, who left home on Tuesday to help her son, lost in the midst of the CAOP B -Viana neighborhood, on the outskirts of the Angolan capital -caused and also causes shock among the local population who accuses rapid intervention police (PIR) of being the authors of the shots.
Taxi drivers’ strike has become catastrophe into just three days. Mother’s death in front of her son shocked the country and a lot of paint will still run.
What started as a taxi drivers strike went on riots and widespread violence in Angola and has already done 30 dead and 277 injured In the last three days in several provinces, according to the last provisional balance of the Angolan police.
The point of the situation presented this Thursday by the spokesman of the Angola National Police, subcommittee Mateus Rodrigues, said that until the present date 1,515 people were detainedas well as 118 commercial establishments, 24 public buses destroyedmore than 20 private vehicles, five vehicles of the defense and safety forces, one motorcycle and an ambulance.
“Vandalized everything“, SIC News confessed to merchant António Bumba, owner of two bars, an inn, a restaurant, a ballroom and a store, whose 19 employees have now been left without work.
The Angolan Justice has already begun to judge and condemn hundreds of young people involved in acts of vandalism and piles. The Angola (OAA) Bar Association is being mobilized to guarantee fair judgments to more than a thousand detained citizens.
Mateus Rodrigues assured that the cases that resulted in Deaths “are deserving the proper investigation of the authorities to assess the circumstances in which they occurred”noting that among the number of injuries found, ten are from the defense forces to security.
Monday to Tuesday was registered a Taxis Services Stoppingconvened by taxi associations and cooperatives, in protest to climb the price of fuels and public transport rates, which citizens find very high.
Acts were recorded during the taxi drivers’ strike period in several Angolan provinces.
“They are not lost bullets”
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“We want justice” is the scream that echoes between family members and neighbors of the woman killed by police shots in a poor neighborhood of Luanda, during the riots of recent days, leaving widower and desolate orphans crying for help.
Ana Silvi Mubiala He was killed in front of his son by a UIR bullet during the protests in Luanda. He was not armed – the only “crime” he committed was to leave home to buy Omo on a day when the police decided indiscriminately to water the people with bullets.
“Life is short, don’t be Lazy,” that is, “life is short, not be lazy,” said the T-shirt that his son wore when he saw his mother die, hit by a rabid bullet from the rapid intervention unit (UIR). Ana Silvi Mubiala was the mother of four children, the youngest with only seven months. I sold on the street to support the family. He was taking care of his in housework, which was brutally murdered.
Speaking to Radio Awakening, Ana Silvi’s son says that, that day, “went out with her mother to buy Omo,” when they “saw many people running away.”
“My mother and I ran away. I heard a shot the first time, then came the second and my mother fell,” he says.
O Teenager still begged: “Get up, Mom”, but Ana had already fallen forever. He tried to protect his son from the shots when he was hit in his back – a trauma that will certainly accompany the boy to the end of his days.
Critics of the regime do not look at police barbarism as a simple incident. A, activist Laura Macedo says they are not “lost bullets.”
“They are intentional bullets”guarantees.
Police, who did not react immediately, said Thursday that the dead woman was a foreign citizen, “probably in an irregular migratory situation in Angola”, and was part of groups involved in piles, theft and disorders on the public road.
Police Commander-General Francisco da Silva has removed responsibilities: “When that group tried to get rushed against the agents, of course the physical integrity of the agent must be safeguarded first. And in this situation, it was neutralized. Unfortunately we regretted death, but the agent had to protect himself and preserve the authority of the state,” he said.
Police say everything has returned to normal
According to Mateus Rodrigues, the situation is characterized as stable, calm, with the return to normality, circulation in the roads, without the registration of any incident of enhancement.
“He returned to normal life”Said the source, repudiating the acts assisted in the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Icolo and Bengo, Bengo, Huila, Malanje, Huambo and Lunda Norte.
The Angolan police spokesman expressed concern of the authorities with information circulating on social networks, sharing information on violence, incidents in the early days of this situation, as if they were currently occurring.
The source also denied an alleged statement of mandatory collection, allegedly issued by the Angolan authorities, noting that the forces continue on the streets to develop the work of maintaining the order “and ready for answers in case of some other situation of order change.”
