Namibia: NSHR releases report on found unmarked gravesites

Today the Namibian organization National Society for Human Rights makes public a report about the unmarked graves that have been found in northern Namibia and southern Angola.

Marked tree, exhibit in the report

The report written and published by the Namibian human rights organization National Society for Human Rights entitled Namibia. Enforced Disappearances: Discovery of 'No Name' Gravesites conveys a study on the circumstances surrounding the unmarked graves found in Namibia and Angola, like the situation physically and contents of human remains. The publication of this report responds to the following objectives:

- Publicize the discovery of unmarked graves in northern Namibia and southern Angola.

- Call for an independent, impartial, thorough and competent international forensic investigation, preferably led by ICRC or the UNWGEID

- Disclose NSHR's finding that there is a clear nexus between the mysterious armed killing which had occurred in the Mayara area of the Mukwe Constituency in the Kavanyo Region and the ensuing attack directed against the local civilian population.

- Demonstrate the said attack has been primarily directed against ethnic Ovimbundu people as such

Namibia. Enforced Disappearances: Discovery of 'No Name' Gravesites also consists of a list of crimes committed by members of a special unit of military intelligence of the NDF (Namibian Defense Force), known as Tornado, as well as members of SFF (Special Field Force ).

The report finishes with a description of the enforced disappearances as a continous crime, and some recomendations, one of these being "the investigation of president Nujoma under Artile 25(3) (b) of the Rome Statute For havind consciously and voluntarely ordered his subordinates to commit the said breaches and violations of human rights".