Attempted coup? | Folha 8 Independent Angolan Newspaper

The organization “Amigos de Angola” today appealed to the President of the Republic (also President of the MPLA and incumbent of the Executive Branch), João Lourenço, to release all the protesters detained in Saturday’s protest in Luanda, defending an end to the violence against activists.

A Saturday march, called by civil society activists, but with the support of UNITA and other opposition forces that the MPLA (in power for 45 years) still allows to exist, aimed at claiming better living conditions, more employment and the first municipal elections in Angola, which were scheduled for this year, but were postponed without a new date. In other words, all issues that jeopardize the security of the State and that cannot be tolerated, in any way, by the President of the MPLA, much less by the President of the Executive Branch and even less by the President of the Republic.

The non-governmental organization cites witnesses that “the police acted brutally” against the protesters, using “tear gas, horses and police vehicles to intimidate and disperse a peaceful protest” and that medical care was denied to the wounded.

In fact, none of this happened. First of all, how can a police internationally recognized for its high level of civility act “brutally”, use “tear gas, horses” etc. if the security of the state was not at stake or even an attempted coup d’état?

“We asked President João Lourenço to release all the demonstrators who were illegally detained during the protest,” reads a statement released by “Friends of Angola”.

Another campaign to disinformation the forces of the reaction against the honorability of João Lourenço, an impolite president and whose government would be unable to illegally arrest the demonstrators, being public that the country’s Constitution recognizes and encourages freedom of expression, in addition to practices that police forces are evidence of full and unequivocal respect for human rights.

The organization stresses that the demonstration was in accordance with the Angolan Constitution and calls for the opening of an investigation to “bring those responsible to justice”, which is why they consider a violation of rights by the authorities.

“These rights are clearly stated in the Constitution and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified by Angola, but they are being violated by authorities who, by legal imperative, should be the first to respect them”, they argue.

The “Friends of Angola” point out that the demonstrators only displayed posters, were unarmed and protected themselves with face masks, “respecting the physical distance necessary in the context of combating the Covid-19 pandemic”.

They also argue that the reasons for the demonstration are justified: “The lack of job opportunities, the endemic corruption that continues to cost Angolan treasury millions and the lack of an independent electoral commission”.

“We hope that President João Lourenço will embrace democratic values ​​and respect the freedom of expression and assembly of Angolan citizens”, they add.

Since 2002, the MPLA has managed to pretend that it democratizes the country and, more than that, it has managed (though not on its own merit, but rather on UNITA’s merit) to completely domesticate all those who could stand up to it.

Angola was, is and will be (part of the MPLA’s DNA) among the most corrupt countries in the world. The infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world. And, of course, the People continue to be generated with hunger, being born with hunger, and dying shortly after … with hunger.

Let us remember that, for example, then Minister Georges Chikoti said he was not concerned with the international campaign for the release of the then political prisoners (Revús) in Angola, swearing that they were preparing a coup. Nothing more, nothing less. A coup d’état. Yesterday the same happened.

The activists were detained, they were not political prisoners, said the Foreign Minister at the time, maintaining – as ordered by the “dear leader” and for the sake of survival – the thesis (which will be reiterated today) that young people activists had missiles hidden in mechanical pencils, Kalashnikovs camouflaged on mobile phones and other heavy and lethal weaponry disguised on the posters they wielded. This is the only way to understand that they were preparing a coup.

At the time, the international campaign for the liberation of activists showed, moreover, that everyone forgets that the MPLA is the only representative of God on Earth and, therefore, has divination powers that lead him to know with millimeter accuracy what people think.

It was, moreover, these powers that allowed the arrest of young people in flagrante delicto: they were at that moment thinking of a solution to overthrow the MPLA. And that in itself is a matter of fact to have them killed.

In addition, no further evidence was required. What would the regime use the weapons (the ones that were camouflaged), or the millions of guerrillas (that were in the yard under the hose)? Knowing what young people thought was a “sine qua non” condition.

Let us see Georges Chikoti’s explanation that today can be reiterated by João Lourenço: “Angola is a democratic country, it has political parties that participate in Parliament. What cannot be accepted is that people want to use violence as a way to achieve or achieve political power ”.

When Georges Chikoti spoke, with full knowledge of the facts, of violence he was obviously referring to the military revolt that the youth army had in mind, in case it was not so hot under the hose.

Coming now to say that the regime does not know how to live with the adversary and reveals one of its most striking aspects, intolerance, is not understanding the DNA of the MPLA, in which the highest point was the massacre of thousands and thousands (perhaps 80 thousand) of Angolans on May 27, 1977.

It is, moreover, not to understand that the MPLA regime is so dying that it even orders to arrest and kill its own shadow.

In fact, all this shows that the MPLA regime is dead, it just doesn’t know yet.

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