WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-07-31 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Are my eyes deceiving me? Look at this! And International Court to try Marxist Sam Nujoma of Namibia? This is worth watching. Jan]
The International Criminal Court may try former Namibian president Sam Nujoma and three others in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of people.
A local newspaper reported on Monday that hundreds of Namibians under the care of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) disappeared in exile just before and after the country’s independence in 1990, and it is believed that they were killed and their bodies dumped in a mountain crevasse near Lubango in Angola.
Most of the missing Swapo “detainees” were accused of spying for apartheid South Africa during the battle for independence.
The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), which took the submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said it had obtained accounts from former Swapo combatants and members of Angola’s secret service of how the corpses of massacre victims were pushed down the crevasse, said to be 700 to 800m deep.
The human rights body said eyewitnesses had given graphic accounts of how some of the victims were shot before being pushed into the misty and foggy crevasse in the 1980s. Others were allegedly thrown alive into the mountain fissure, the NSHR alleged.
Namibia’s ruling Swapo party has on several occasions denied that it executed any of its members who were detained at Lubango.
The NSHR wants Nujoma – who is the current president of Swapo – and three others to be investigated for “instigation, planning, supervision, abetting, aiding, defending and/or perpetuating” the disappearances of the Namibians in exile.
Nujoma was commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, Swapo’s military wing, during the liberation struggle and also assumed the responsibility of commander-in-chief of the Namibia Defence Force after independence.
Other Swapo leaders the NSHR wants the ICC to deal with are ex-defence minister Erkki Nghimtina, former chief of defence and now retired lieutenant-general Solomon “Jesus” Hawala, and Namibia Defence Forces Colonel Thomas Shuuya.
According to The Namibian newspaper, the ICC confirmed to the NSHR that it received the submission and was weighing the merits of the case.
In a dossier submitted to the ICC in November last year, the NSHR said Nujoma’s continued refusal to reveal the facts about the fate and whereabouts of about 4 200 missing people qualified him to be tried under the “continuous violation doctrine” of the international court.
The NSHR argues that Nujoma was head of Swapo at the time of the disappearances, and that he continues to scuttle any investigation into the April 1989 incident, where more than 370 Swapo fighters were mysteriously killed by South African forces, for fear that it might also shed light on the fate and whereabouts of the missing Swapo detainees.
The NSHR also wants Nujoma to be tried for gross violations in the Kavango region, which borders Angola, between 1994 and 1996. At the height of Unita’s attacks on northern Namibia, Nujoma imposed a state of emergency and ordered security forces to shoot on sight anyone crossing or found near the border.
The NSHR claims that at least 35 innocent people lost their lives as a result of Nujoma’s order.