Cablegate: Increase in Vigilante Killings Exposes Broken

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UNCLAS MAPUTO 000470

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PHUM MZ
SUBJECT: INCREASE IN VIGILANTE KILLINGS EXPOSES BROKEN
JUSTICE SYSTEM

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SUMMARY
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1. (U) Mozambique has registered a significant rise in the number of re

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NUMBERS TRENDING UP
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2. (SBU) According to prominent Mozambican sociologist Carlos Serra, th

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THE ROOT OF VIGILANTE KILLINGS
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3. (SBU) While media coverage tends to be minimal--usually a paragraph-

4. (U) Indications suggest that Mozambicans have lost faith in the over

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COMMENT
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5. (SBU) It is alarming that in only the first four months of 2008, Moz

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