Angola’s crackdown on protesters could fuel separatist violence - defenceWeb

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Angola’s crackdown on protesters could fuel separatist violence - defenceWeb

On 30 July, an Angolan court sentenced 198 people – men, women and the elderly – to four to eight years in jail for various crimes including criminal association, rioting, rebellion and damage to public property. They had been part of a peaceful protest last year in support of the autonomy of the Lunda people in the diamond-rich Lunda Sul Province in eastern Angola. The protesters supported Jota Filipe Malakito’s pro-autonomy group – Manifesto J…