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Viewing cable 07MAPUTO651, Mozambique: Socio-Political Digest

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07MAPUTO651 2007-06-11 16:01 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Maputo
VZCZCXRO1675
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHTO #0651/01 1621601
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 111601Z JUN 07
FM AMEMBASSY MAPUTO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7434
INFO RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MAPUTO 000651 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
AF/S FOR HTREGER, AF/RSA FOR MBITTRICK 
MCC FOR SGAULL 
USAID FOR AFR/SA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: POL PGOV PREL MZ
SUBJECT: Mozambique: Socio-Political Digest 
 
 
1. (U) This is a summary of significant socio- 
political developments in Mozambique over the 
past two months.  We provide it as a supplement 
to our other reporting. 
 
--  Developments re March 22 Explosion at 
Munitions Depot 
 
--  PDD District Leader Defects to Frelimo 
 
--  Police accused of executing three citizens 
 
--  National Election Commission Members Selected 
 
 
Developments re March 22 Explosion at Munitions 
Depot 
--------------------------------------------- -- 
 
2. (U) The Commission of Inquiry set up by 
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza reported 
back on April 11 that the March 22 explosions at 
the military arsenal in a Maputo suburb were 
caused by a combination of factors, including the 
obsolescence of the material stored in the 
arsenal, poor storage conditions (exposure to the 
elements - sun, rain, heat and cold), and human 
error.  The Commission found no evidence to 
suggest that the explosions were caused by 
sabotage or by attempts to extract mercury from 
the munitions stored in the arsenal. 
 
3. (U) The Commission discovered that soldiers at 
the depot lacked manuals and therefore did not 
know the useful life of the munitions. 
Inspections consisted of simply looking at the 
boxes containing munitions (or at the munitions 
not in boxes).  The soldiers carrying out this 
task had no technical support, and no attempt was 
made to verify the contents of the boxes nor 
check on the state of their contents.  The report 
stated that the munitions were stored in a 
warehouse that had no roof. 
 
4. (U) Mozambican Defense Minister Tobias Dai, 
speaking to reporters, said it would cost about 
600 million meticais (USD 24 million) to build 
new storage facilities at sites away from major 
cities.  (Note - Munitions also are stored in 
suburbs in several other Mozambican cities.  End 
note.)  Dai claimed the government was already 
working to raise funds. 
 
5. (U) During April, the government released 
"final figures" on casualties and damage from the 
explosions.  According to its tally, the death 
toll was 104 people killed.  Some 515 others were 
injured and sought medical assistance, and 80 of 
these lost limbs.  Approximately 4,500 houses 
were damaged or destroyed. 
 
PDD District Leader Defects to Frelimo 
-------------------------------------- 
 
6. (U) Mozambique's third largest political 
party, PDD (Party for Peace Democracy and 
Development), suffered a serious blow in April 
with the defection of the head of its political 
commission in Sofala, Conceicao Frechaut, to the 
ruling Frelimo Party. 
 
7. (U) She had once been a Frelimo member, 
switched her loyalty to the PDD, becoming a 
member of the PDD National Political Commission, 
but has now returned to Frelimo, a party she 
referred to as "my father." 
 
Police accused of executing three citizens 
------------------------------------------ 
 
8. (U) The press devoted significant coverage to 
an alleged extra-judicial execution in early 
April of three people by the police.  According 
to accounts in the media, police using a vehicle 
belonging to the Criminal Investigation Police 
(PIC) took three citizens to a suburban Maputo 
football field and shot them.  Mozambique's Human 
Rights League, an NGO, denounced the killings as 
 
MAPUTO 00000651  002 OF 002 
 
 
executions and urged an immediate investigation. 
 As a result, both the police and the Attorney- 
General's office launched formal inquiries.  The 
three apparently were ordinary citizens without 
any criminal record.  The police concluded that 
the victims were killed trying to escape.  The 
Attorney General's office stated that the victims 
were shot in the back of the head at point blank 
range, and gave the names of the three police 
officers involved.  The three accused policemen 
are in jail awaiting trial.  Family members 
protested outside the jail in early June, saying 
the policemen were only following orders from 
higher ups. 
 
National Elections Commission Members Selected 
--------------------------------------------- - 
 
9. (U) Mozambique's National Elections Commission 
(CNE) on June 8 announced the names of the 
successful candidates for the eight CNE places 
reserved for representatives of civil society 
organizations. Earlier, in May, the first five 
members of the Commission were chosen -- three 
picked by the ruling FRELIMO Party and two by the 
main opposition party, RENAMO.  The 13-member 
Commission will oversee the upcoming provincial, 
national and municipal elections. 
 
10. (U) The eight civil society members were 
chosen by a majority of the five political party 
members (in effect, by FRELIMO) from among 62 
candidates submitted by 22 civil society bodies. 
Only one civil society organization, the 
Electoral Observatory, brought together a large 
number of civil society bodies in an attempt to 
draw up an agreed slate for the CNE. Its 
initiative was highly public, and transparent, 
involving the formation of a jury, meetings with 
all the provincial NGO forums, and a final phase 
of private and public interviews of the 
candidates who made it onto the Observatory's 
short list. Only two of the candidates nominated 
by the Observatory were selected. 
 
11. (SBU) Comment:  The selection of candidates 
who had not been subjected to a transparent 
process, presumably at the direction of Frelimo, 
is a negative sign for the integrity of the 
public elections process.  Although several well 
known journalists and a respected human rights 
activist were nominated, those chosen are 
relatively unknown and inexperienced. 
 
DUDLEY