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E 339 Lafayette Street - for a Free Soutllem Alricll- C New York, N~Y E 339 Lafayette Street - For A Free Soutllem Alricll- C New York, N~Y. 10012 S f A Phone: (212) 477-0066 #48 7 November 1986 ~amibia under permanent s-tate ofEm~rgency The international cornrmmity is rightly distressed and hOrTified by the imposition of a state of emergency in South Africa in June of this year. But it appears not -to know or care -that similar "emergency" rules have been in effect in Namibia since 1972., Northern Namibia, "the "operational area" where over half of all Namibians live, 'is under full martial law, enforced by South African milltary and paramili-tary forces supplemented by Namibian conscripts .and ·tribalpolice units. Altogether these occu- _pation forces total some lOO ,OOO..-or one for ·every. ten. or fewer Namibians livmg in 'the .north.- .. '.'~ . ~ -- -" '. : . ':l,~ N.. ~~ b~..,. 8 'A~. JQCl4 These "security forces" rule the north by vio­ -------- lence and ter.ror. The basic emergency proclama­ 101 .Battalion assaults tion ("A-G 9") authorizes officers to arrest and hold anyone inindefinite, incormnunicado deten­ 101 BAlTALION memben-wen notorious makakunya David ._tIy.mued of _u1t1iac three Sbinana,' and that be, indieatina tion for "inter.rogation"-- a term translated by c:blklrell, their motller, adalso of ~e teachers' footprints shouted: Itea1Iq eenaIn Items ad a .... of 'You lying prostitute, today you the occupation forces as -torture. Indeed, KIlO Ia cub from the family Ia will_I' . soldiers and police kill, kidnap, and assault HrtiItnI Namibia. 'Sbinana grabbed me by the necIc According to a statement filed and pulled me down, wbile the local men, WOlneI;l, and children, burn down -their with the office of the Chairman of others assaulted my tbne cbiIdml. kraals, destroy their crops, and steal their . the Owambo Administration, Mr While Sbinana Itill kept his foot on Peter Kalangula, two SADF Buf­ 'my neck, other IOldiers kicked and property with impuni-ty. fel Trucks on June 25', 1986, arriv­ i beat us up with sticks and Tifle ed at the home of Mrs Mariane I butts, Joseph at Ondangwa, and asked 'The makakunya's tben search· A provision of the ~genpy-:r.ul:es. -prohibi'ts_suits her. and . the children for the ~Jee':~~~=re~~o~l:t~:~~~ whereabouts of 'three terrorists' for damages againstmenibers of the security forces who allegedly visited her home the Ilefl,' she ~lIeg~. '. .. _ or their SUPeriors for any action taken "in con- , previous day. __ . The womanSlated that she ex· ~~ nection with" the application of the emergency plained to the soldiers that no such persons visited her home, and that - -- legislation. Criminal prosecution of soldiers or the only people "'ho visited her the police for abuse of Namibians is baITed by law if they acted "in previous day were teachers from Ondangwa. good faith. " ~ ._----- She further alleged that she recogni~d one of the ~ldiers as Most complaints by civilians I,!hc. N..CLrn·'bi".." 't ~ ,qa" ___. /'~_'.~'.;._.;~~_.. ;~.:. ':~ .> '.. ,:.=~=:t~·~~f~#;~..~~_::%e_·.:.;/Coromunity up-in-arms dfficial~ do' act,thei.:' responses·m:.y -be--grotesque:'-- as dead are paraded 'IW::> soldiers found gUl.lty of roastmg an elderly .IN ~.Acr.4eicIbtd~~ ~ COIll'_~dRUII ..aroaJUl.•arket .places. man alive over an open fire-- one arm was ampu­ "munity 'of OsIInati as" 'barbaric: C8a1-sbops aad tbe re5ldentlaJ aJ!d lrrespoaslblt' Stearlty forces areas of Osbnatl West ac:c:ordlnc tated as a result, and he died not long after his operating la the Osbnatl area to eye witnesses in the ana. alltgedly 'paraded' the bodies of A letter from the community of discharge from the hospital-- were fired $25 each periJlas killed la actioa tbrouCb Osbakatl, desc:ribed the borror of for "excessive zeal." the residential and business.aras of the laddent, aad stated tbat 011 Osbakatl last Suaday; . -.tnI oc:c:asIons ia the past,..mea . The incident oexarred OD wbat is BIiJar iDc:idents bad occurred, they This summer a court trying four South African 000 as Casslnca Day, wben the.. bad complalDed to Mr Peter bodies of the guerrillas, which were Kalal!&uIa,_wbo beacls tbe ~- soldiers for 1I11.1I'dering the Namibian father of five strapped onto the bumpen ad 1'110 AclJI!inIstratioa. was ordered from Pretoria to stop the trial. spm wheels of twoCasspin, were Residents said tIIty c:oaId Dot The btIleve It possible that IInmlUl be­ soldiers thereupon want free. lap<OUld 10_~to Iac:II aa degree, as to expose the bodies of the dead. 'Tbest perrIIlas an To interdict or limit news of conditions in the north, non-residents an the llOIIS and .fatben ofour pe0­ ple, aDd if the Security forces tbillk are now required to obtain police and/or military pennits to enter the that they an lmpresslng us with area. Reporters, lawyers, churchmen, .!and a human rights activist wlth tbeir victories tben tbey are -~~ ",J mistaken. Tbey an nninc as witb revolt aad disgast' one resident , said.' . ~ ¥ abuses an: arrong those who In June 1985 the South Africa State ~sident issued a proclanation install­ ing a carefully selected puppet "gov­ errunent" in Windhoek. That proclanation in­ ,n~' N~,b;~ cluded a "Bill of . 1~~"N£ 'CIS" Fundamental Rights," 1-. - A flITEEN year-old scboolboy, .purported to ensure Portus Blasias from Oabemba many political and YilJ81e near Ombalantu iD nortbern civil rights in the INamibia bas been bospltalised for ,"ere facial bUnlS after memben Territory. However, I of tbe Sootb African Defence force allegedly beId Ills face apinsl when challenged in the exhaust system of an idling the courts, the ~"gov­ Baffel truck. From his hospital bed the boy ern"'Ilent" has taken the told of his ordeal at the bands of men he called 'merciless white position that the Bill devils.' is not binding. Fur­ He said a group of about 12 soldiers last Friday beat him up and thermore, it intends violently pressed his face ..aiDst a to preserve the pipe of hot Stealll from the back of a Buffel. emrgency rules authorizing detention without trial and granting im­ I Blasius said the soldiers arrived at a Cuca-shop belongiog to Mr munity to the security forces regarless of any conflict with the Nalusha, a businessman from Eill. Omu1amba township, and ordeRd him to open the Coca-shop. He ex· 1 plained to them that the owner of Thus the Billrerna.ins a propaganda ploy, designed to 1I1islead the out­ ., the shop was out on business and , that be bad no keys except those side world into believing that a dem::>cratic system is being created \ for his suitcase. 'Upon this the soldiers forced me in Namibia. But the cruel realities have not changed. ,to unlock the door with the keys of ~ Imy suitcase. They then grabbed rand tbrew me into the Buffel and N~,.,,;J:,,~n .,.he "'''"...; I b ia. n, Au. ~. ,,,,,, - /"the took me with them to an undisclos­ arbit~ ed place where they accused me of \ ritE SOUTH African Defence children during an attack " being a little, stupid Swapo, and II J"~S \ Force and the cabinet ofthe interim on the family's home on August Oa. II asked me about Swapo fighters. , 'aoyernment defended an action in 15, 1984. .. : 'Some soldiers staned to beat me \ which four ciyilians hi north Mrs Camlhus alleged that I up while othen pulling my hair western Namibia were burnt to members of the SADF wrongfull! held my face against the exhaust Injured COM , pipe. death by soldiers in August 1984 and unlawfully attacked the faml- •Although I was screaming very \ but filUllly agreed to pay compen- IY's property, killing her 40 year old loudly those merciless white devils driver dies \ sation for loss of support and husband Mr Raphael Gerh~rd, a did not care, and even left me there preac~er brea~wmner, I in t~e bush with much pain: MR VILHO KASHIKA, 41, damages suffered by a widow "'" lay and only \-..Blasius saJd. following an attack on ber tradi· and relatives Barbara Kaslku, 64, ~VVV a civilian who was allegedly tional home. .. Rudolf Erasmus, 8, and Gerh~rd beaten up at Omutse in theOn­ in an action instituted by Mrs Raphael, 3. _ . dangua area, by security force Floria Camilius, a widow of Ton- ~ members, died this week in the doro in Kavango, compensation ~ Oshakati State Hospital. was claimed for damages suffered : According to the office of as a result of personal injuries to Mr Peter Kalangula, a charge herself and two of her minor was laid on behalf of Mr Kashi­ -~ -- - ------ ka, following an incident in .~~IAN --- which he was badly beaten up I'lUDAY.FebruarY2119a6- ----- on August 26 this year. Mr Kasbika was taken to the Onanjokwe Hospital, where it SWATF'reacts to·viewing o'fcorpses was at one stage feared he , BY JOHN LIEBENBERG tbemNamibia1hat families from: -'.thai "during:the identification would become a paraplegic, but the white town ofOshakati had proccssJorintelligencepurposes he died in Oshakati hospital this A SPOKESMAN for tbe SWA taken their children to view the at the Army headquaners in Territory Force ·bas denied corpsesofthedeadfighterswhen Oshakati, some curious people week. allegations tbattbe bodies of37 they WCTC laid out·anhe Head- passing by had come to look'. Mr Kashika was employed by Swapo guerriUas; ~ntly sbot . quartersofSector lOinOshakati. CDM as a driver to the Execu­ bytbeSWATF,_otficiallyex­ There was 1I1so a TCPOrI ·that a biblted10 membersoftbe public seniorAnnyoffiCCrbadtakenhis tive Director, and was married In Osbakatl. wife to.view.the.dead guerrillas. with five children. There·wen; reports from nor- "The SWATF'spokesman said ........................ FIRST BIRTHDAY EDITION TODAY ******** *-* ** CK MOVE lnterim government's I proposed amendment II to exclude courts' ) - -"----I testing bill of rights Bill of Rights not for "Ordinary Citizen" BY GWEN USTER .•..
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