9 December 1988

r '" NUNW PETITION ICSEAF ON OVER EXPLOITATION INSIDE 9-1 5 D6 G J~5 UNITA MURDER,. , . CHARGE. ."",,,.--.,,,, .•.. >,,-~.. , ~ BY CHRIS SHIPANGA TWO UNlTA bandits briefly appeared before Magistrate J.e. Liebenberg at Ondangwa on a charge of murder of a Namibian civilian on November 21, this year. State'PrO: secutor Mr P.C. Muller confirmed that two men, Daniel Shitaleni and Protasius Thomas appeared on Monday on a charge of murder of a man on November 21, 1988. He added that he could not confirm The boy reported the matter to a Mr whether the two men were from Unita, Stephanus HaufJ.ku, an uncle of his liv but could confIrm that the accused ing on the Namibianside ofthe border, were being held by police at Oshakati. who again reported the matter further Police headquarters in Windhoek to the rest of the family. said on inquiry that Unita mainly On the previous day, however, operated in the Okavango region, but November 14th, Unita bandits arriv that there was not a single matter ed at the homestead ofMr Mundilo ap reported at Rundu concerning murder parently to steal more cattle. The ban by Unita members during the pastfuw dits only found the wife and another - weeks. child at the homestead, and were told MeaI;lwhile, The Namibian is in • that the cattle were already taken out poesession of a copy of a sworn state-, for herding. ment handed in at the office for the The bandits then reportffdlyfollo'w Ovambo Administration, at On ed the cattle tracks up to near. the ciangwa, by two witnesses who stated N amibianJAngolan border, where they that Unita bandits were .·esponsible disappeared into a Unita temporary for the plunder and theft ofthe proper base on the Namibian side of the ty of civilians in the area. border. One of the witnesses stated that he Meanwhile, Mr Mundilo's son has personally seen how Unita bandits Hamupanda and others follwed the had beaten his relative, Mr Phillipus bandits until at the temporary base, A JOYFUL REUNION: Mr Dan Tjongarero, Swapo Vice Chairman, greets long-term detainee, Shadjanale Ndishishi to death. saw what happened, and then went Mr Jason Angula, who was released this week after over a year in detention under Section 6 According to the statement dated back home to report to their parents of the Terrorism Act. He was held in a corrugated iron cell at Osire. November 28, 1988, and which was again. handed in by witnesses, Mr Shipopyeni Villagers got together, and it was Kambo, 23, and Mr Jos!lph Shityeni, found that a total of 18 cattle were 39, from the village ofOmatanga, near taken by the bandits. They found that Ohaingu, in northern Namibia, the 13 cattle belonged to Mr Phillipus men due to the serious drought that hit Shadjanale Ndishishi, while the rest SCHOOLBOYS SHOT. their area, took several of their cattle belonged to Mr Mundilo Shakolela to a relative, Mr Mundilo Mutanelenga and Mr Stephanus Mwetanelenga, on the Angolan side of HaufJ.ku. the border for tending. Four villagers, Shipopyeni Kambo, On November 15, 1988, the relative's Hamupanda Mundilo, Joseph Shi IN KATUTURA son, Hamupanda Mundilo, 16, arriv tyeni, and Phillipus Ndishsishi were ed from southern Angola to report that delegated to go and get the cattle back On~ killed and another wounded after car chase with police Unita bandits had stolen the cattle left in his father's care. Continued on page 2 BY SARAH JOHANNES AND CHRIS SHIPANGA AMURDER case is being investigated by the Criminal Investiga Johannes was their beloved son, and WARNINGS OF NEW tion Department (CID), following a shooting incident in which a that he could drive well despite the fact 16 year old schoolboy was lnlled, while another, aged 17, was that he was not in possession of a wounded by police in Katutura last Sunday. driver's licence. Mrs Kamati said that she heard LINKAGE POLICY This reporter and several other relatives of the deceased boy gave shots being fired outside her house, SWAPO Information Officer in London, Mr Peter Manning, h as warned Katutura residents had to dive for evidence to the effect that the car was and that she rushed out to see what of a new linkage policy being developed in negotiations for peace in Angola cover when shots were flred wildly not stolen, but that it has in fact been _was happening. "I heard people and independence for Namibia. from a white police Ford Sierra vehicle, given to the boy to drive home. shouting that our vehicle was shot at, He said this week the new linkage "attempts to make independence for Namibia pursuing a Toyota Hillux bakkie in The deeply moved parents of the and that my child was hit. I ran to the dependent on accommodating the South African and United States surrogate, what appeared to be a high-speed car dead boy, describing events prior to and scene, about 70 metres away, and there Unita, in positions of power in Angola". chase along Hostel Street in the after the killing oftheir son, said that I saw my child lying in a pool of blood: , "rThe US and South Mrican objective is to gain influence in Angola, to influence township. "Bystanders told me that Johannes the political course of events in the whole of southern Africa:' Mr Manning saId. The incident happened at around was shot while standing outside the He added that it was not surprising that the Republican platform for a Bush 22:00 on Sunday when two white car locking the door of the car:' Administration lists, as the flrst priority of its Africa policy, "to oppose the forces policemen in civilian clothes at high She said that she asked the of Marxist imperialism, which sustains the march oftyranny in Africa. This priori speed chased and fired several shots at policemen why they had shot the ty includes giving strong assistance to groups which oppose Soviet and Cuban two schoolchildren driving in a bakkie children, to which one policeman sponsored oppression in Africa". in front of them. allegedly remarked, "why are they Mr Manning said: "Although there is unprecedented pressure on South Africa, Several other shots were heard about running away?" we need to be cautious." . five minutes later, when it appeared as She said she was stopped from com "Even if an agreement is signed in the near future, one possible and likely if the t,yo vebicles came to a stop. ing any nearer to the child, and was scenario is an escalation in a so-called 'Unita counter-offensive', which would mean Th the shock of many residents ofthe even warned against "unruly that Cuban forces do not begin to depart and South Africa claims justification township, it became clear that police behaviour." for not beginning the implementation of Resolution 435." shot and killed a youth, Johannes She said she was ordered into a police "South Africa and its allies would proclaim that it is Angola that is being Ndawanapo Kamati, and wounded van which was called in to drive the unreasonable in not accommodating Unita:' he said. another boy, Henry Tjihukununa. fatally wounded boy to hospital, where Mr Manning, who went into exile from Namibia several. years ago after being Police then allegedly initially claim he was certified dead on arrival. detained for a considerable period, is speaking this weekend in Bonn at the Euro ed that the vehicle in which the two Mr Kamati said that he asked the pean Conference Against South African Aggression on Mozambique and Angola. childreb. were driving was reported to policemen why he did not at least aim His speech will be published as an opinion piece in next week's edition of The them as a "stolen bakkie:' This claim Namibian. was reportedly later dropped, as Johannes Kamati --killed Continued on page 2 2 Friday December 9 1988 THE NAMIBIAN < _, 15 spent cartridges at place where the car was stopped don't know the men, and they were Continued from_page 1 armed. Johannes 'then accelerated, and we had decided to drive home as at the wheels, or at his son's legs, and quickly as possible, but then the white the policeman allegedly said: "I shot men started to shoot at us." at his head, because that is all I could "We got such a fright, that we even make out properly." ignored traffic lights at the crossing The boy's father also said that police near the Katutura Hospital, and con later picked up a total'of15" spent car tinued driving, with the men still chas tridges at the scene ,:"here the car ing and shooting at us. We stopped _ stopped. when we were near our homes, and I He also added that, later when he shoutedto~yfriendthatwemustrun and his wife saw their child's pody at . away." the mortuary, they noticed that there The boy told this newspaper that the were at least three bullet wounds in the deceased said to him that it was no head with several multiple bullet 'longer necessary as they were already THE PARE~JTS of the a~ad boy. On the left, Mr and Mrs Kamati, and a relative. wounds in the upper part oftlie body. at home. .. When reporters visited the wound "The white men continued to shoot ed boy, Henry, at the Katutura at us Mwe were getting off, and I decid Hospital, on Tuesday, they noticed that e8.torun away into nearby shrubs. I got the patient's card stated that he was hit in my arm, but continued to run as shot by police in an incident involving I noticedthat Johannes fell right there UNITA-MURDER CHARGE a "stolen vehicle;' .

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