WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT NAMIBIA • WHAT YOU CAN DO • The brochure says South African security police and military forces operating in Namibia have wide power of arbitrary arrest and detention without trial and are given immunity against civil or criminal prosecution for any action carried out in "good faith." These powers have been used consistently for years to suppress political opposition to South African occupation of Namibia; the main target has been the legal Namibia-based wing of SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organization). The brochure says Linus Nahole and Leevy Llkango are among 120 detainees held at a military camp in the Mariental district; they are believed to have been...
WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT NAMIBIA • WHAT YOU CAN DO • The brochure says South African security police and military forces operating in Namibia have wide power of arbitrary arrest and detention without trial and are given immunity against civil or criminal prosecution for any action carried out in "good faith." These powers have been used consistently for years to suppress political opposition to South African occupation of Namibia; the main target has been the legal Namibia-based wing of SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organization). The brochure says Linus Nahole and Leevy Llkango are among 120 detainees held at a military camp in the Mariental district; they are believed to have been abducted from Angola by SA military forces in May 1978. These detainees are believed to have been held incommunicado for virtually the whole period of their imprisonment. In May 1978, South African military forces attacked a refugee camp some 150 miles inside Angola at Kassinga, leaving hundreds of men, women and children dead. The South African Defence Force (SADF) are alleged to be responsible for extrajudicial executions in both northern Namibia and southern Angola. These allegations have been made mostly by church sources in northern Namibia. Bill Anderson, a former national serviceman in the South African army, alleged in August 1976, that many civilians in Ovamboland had been tortured or killed by SA soldiers who carried out a security sweep, code named "Operation COBRA," of the area between November 1975 and June 1976. The brochure asks people to write Prime Minister P.W. Botha and ask for the immediate release of all Namibian prisoners of conscience and of all long-term detainees under proclamation AG.9 unless they are brought to trial. The brochure asks people to write the South African Ambassador Brand Fourie in Washington, D.C. The brochure mentions SWAPO Administrative Secretary in Windhoek Axel Johannes, Proclamation AG.9, prison without trial, the Administrator General, political prisoners, the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), physical assaults, electric shock torture, the maximum security prison on Robbin Island, Cape Town, long terms of imprisonment, international standards, fair trial, the British Church Council (BCC), the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Trevor Edwards, a deserter, Proclamation AG.26 of 1978, Engelhard Gariseb, Aaron Ipinge, and human rights.
