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Download This Report Copyright 8 August 1992 by Human Rights Watch All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-72844 ISBN: 1-56432-077-4 Africa Watch was established in 1988 to monitor and promote observance of internationally recognized human rights in Africa. Africa Watch is a division of Human Rights Watch. The chair of Africa Watch is William Carmichael and the vice chair is Alice Brown. Rakiya Omaar is the executive director; Alex de Waal is the associate director; Janet Fleischman and Karen Sorensen are research associates; Barbara Baker, Urmi Shah and Ben Penglase are associates. Human Rights Watch is composed of Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia Watch, Helsinki Watch and Middle East Watch, and the Fund for Free Expression. The executive committee is comprised of Robert L. 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Méndez Sidney Jones Helsinki Watch Middle East Watch Fund for Free Expression Jeri Laber Andrew Whitley Gara LaMarche Human Rights Watch offices 485 Fifth Avenue 1522 K Street, NW, Suite 910 New York, NY 10017 Washington, DC 20005 Tel: (212) 972-8400 Tel: (202) 371-6592 Fax: (212) 972-0905 Fax: (202) 371-0124 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 10951 West Pico Blvd., #203 90 Borough High Street Los Angeles, CA 90064 London SEI ILL, UK Tel: (213) 475-3070 Tel: (071) 378-8008 Fax: (213) 475-5613 Fax: (071) 378-8029 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Please forward publications requests to our New York office. 2 ACCOUNTABILITY IN NAMIBIA Human Rights and the Transition to Democracy ACCOUNTABILITY IN NAMIBIA Human Rights and the Transition to Democracy August 1992 An Africa Watch Report A Division of Human Rights Watch 485 Fifth Avenue 90 Borough High Street 1522 K Street, NW, Suite 910 New York, NY 10017-6104 London SE1 1LL, U.K. Washington, DC 20005-1202 Tel: (212) 972-8400 Tel: (071) 378-8029 Tel: (202) 371-6592 Fax: (212) 972-0905 Fax: (071) 378-8008 Fax: (202) 371-0124 AFRICA WATCH BOARD OF DIRECTORS William Carmichael, Chair Alice Brown, Vice Chair Roland Algrant Robert L. Bernstein Julius Chambers Michael Clough Roberta Cohen Carol Corillon Alison L. DesForges Adrian W. DeWind Thomas M. Franck Gail Gerhart Jack Greenberg Alice Henkin Richard A. Joseph Thomas Karis Russell Karp Stephen Kass Randall Kennedy John A. Marcum Gay McDougall Toni Morrison James C.N. Paul Robert Preiskel Norman Redlich Randall Robinson David S. Tatel Claude E. Welch, Jr. NOTE ON THE TEXT The interviews with former SWAPO detainees, with one exception, were conducted in Windhoek and Katutura in April 1991. Those interviewed wished their identity to remain anonymous. Pursuant to its usual practice, Africa Watch respected the desire for confidentiality. Thus, those interviews are not footnoted in the text. In some places aliases are used for the purpose of clarity. This is indicated in the footnotes. In the text, noms de guerre appear in quotations. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY .................................................................................. page i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................................................................................................................ iii NOTE ON THE TEXT...................................................................................................................... iv MAP..................................................................................................................................................... v 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1 2. GERMAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIAL RULE...................................................... 8 German Colonial Conquest................................................................................................. 8 South African Colonial Rule ............................................................................................. 11 Governance, Land and Grand Apartheid....................................................................... 13 3. BACKGROUND TO THE WAR............................................................................................... 17 South African Forces .......................................................................................................... 17 SADF and SWATF....................................................................................................... 17 Koevoet .................................................................................................................... 17 Security Police......................................................................................................... 19 Homeguards............................................................................................................ 20 SWAPO Military Forces........................................................................................................ 20 The Course of the War ....................................................................................................... 21 Security Legislation................................................................................................ 22 The 1980s.................................................................................................................. 23 4. THE BOMBING OF REFUGEE CAMPS AND DETENTIONS AT MARIENTAL ..........27 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 27 Assault on the Camps ........................................................................................................ 27 Detentions at Mariental ..................................................................................................... 32 5. VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE NORTH..................... 38 Legal Standards................................................................................................................... 38 Arbitrary Arrests................................................................................................................. 39 Interrogation and Torture ................................................................................................. 43 Disappearances.................................................................................................................... 56 Bombings.............................................................................................................................. 62 6. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ABUSES ..................................................... 64 Executive Amnesties .......................................................................................................... 64 Appointment of Officers from the South African Colonial Regime.......................... 65 7. INTRODUCTION TO SWAPO ABUSES................................................................................ 68 Legal Standards................................................................................................................... 71 Interrogation and Torture ................................................................................................. 71 The Dungeons...................................................................................................................... 79 Conditions in the Dungeons ............................................................................................. 82 Physical Abuse .................................................................................................................... 85 Deaths ................................................................................................................................... 85 Transfers and Disappearances.......................................................................................... 87 Women Detainees............................................................................................................... 88 Pregnancy and Childbearing in the Dungeon............................................................... 90 Children................................................................................................................................ 91 8. THE RELEASE OF SWAPO DETAINEES.............................................................................. 92 The Release of the 210CMay 24, 1989.............................................................................. 93 9. THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION ON DETAINEES........................................................ 98 Specific Findings ............................................................................................................... 100 Lack of Independence .....................................................................................................
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