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The first female witness in the trial of Saddam Hussein today described the torture and sexual assaults she says she suffered at the hands of Iraqi intelligence officers in the early 1980s.
Hidden behind a screen, her voice disguised, the woman recounted how she was arrested in a raid on the town of Dujail after an attempt on the life of Saddam in 1982.
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04 May 2007
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Mozambique: Shot While Trying
A police Commission of Inquiry into shootings by police officers a month ago in the Maputo suburb of Costa do Sol has backed up the initial police version that the three men who died were not summarily executed, but were dangerous criminals "shot while trying to escape".
The shootings were denounced both by the Mozambican Human Rights League (LDH), and by prominent writer Lina Magaia, who lives nearby.
In a letter published in the daily paper "Noticias", Magaia, who is a former parliamentary deputy for the ruling Frelimo Party declared "There are murderers in the police. This time they were seen and denounced".
When the story broke in the press, both the police and the Attorney-General's Office set up inquiries.
The findings of the police inquiry, released in a statement from the Mozambican General Police Command, says that the three men who died, Sousa Carlos Cossa, Mustafa Assene Momede and Francisco Antonio Nhantumbo, were all arrested on the night of 4 April when police surprised them trying to commit armed robbery.
The police say they were breaking into a shop in the inner Maputo neighbourhood of Alto-Mae.
The police seized two pistols from them, and the instruments used to break into the shop.
Once in custody, according to the statement, the three offered to cooperate with the police in locating other members of the gang. They volunteered to show the police where these other supposed criminals were living, in Costa do Sol.
But, as the police were trying to locate the houses concerned, the three men made a run for it. The police opened fire and all three died.
The statement does not say how many shots were fired, nor does it explain why the police let all three detainees out of the car at the same time. It does not explain why the men were killed rather than injured, and nor does it comment on the remarkable accuracy of the police in hitting all three of them as they ran in the dark.
The only criticism made of the policemen is that they did not seek back up. One policeman was guarding each of the arrested men, and with dangerous criminals the correct proportion is three to one, the Commission said.
The Commission confirmed that a second police vehicle went to Costa do Sol that night. It was called in by the police who fired the shots "in order to examine the scene directly and take the bodies to the morgue, as is the rule in the cases of violent death".
The Police Command insisted "the police does not have any camps where it executes detainees". No orders had been given to execute detainees "and policemen are trained exclusively to undertake activities that guarantee the protection of citizens" The Command "laments the loss of life in the incident, and reiterates that policemen are instructed to respect physical integrity and human life".
The police Commission of Inquiry seems to have used no sources other than the policemen involved themselves.
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