Mozambique Begins Hearing into Police’s role in Post-Election Violence and Killings

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police fired tear gas during a nationwide strike called by Mozambique presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest the provisional results of an October 9 election, in Maputo, Mozambique, October 21, 2024. © 2024 Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters On July 7, the former commander-general of the Mozambican police, Bernardino Rafael, whom the President dismissed in January 2025, appeared before the Office of the Attorney General (Procuradoria-Geral da República) for a hearing about the police’s involvement in the killing of about 400 people during the civil unrest…

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