Uíge: The Violence of the Angolan Political Police
Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA’s provincial headquarters in Uíge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the driver were with her. “The driver ran to close the windows,” she recalls. As the attack intensified, he escaped. Neide remained behind. “The police threw tear-gas grenades inside the bus and I passed out.” An ambulance took her to the local hospital, where, she says, a doctor described her condition as “critical”. Officers tried to question her while she was receiving treatment, but fellow activists stopped them. Dina Diangue, 19, was the other passenger. She says she awoke on a seat with her chest burning, got off the bus coughing and collapsed. People carried her to a yard and poured water over her to revive her. She then went back to look for Neide, found her unconscious inside the vehicle and […]
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