It's a lie! Says police

The Police of the Republic Mozambique (PRM) denied today news circulated from the last week, some media and social networks on the existence of a mass grave containing more than a hundred bodies in the area 76, administrative Canda post , Gorongosa district, central province of Tete.A said trench would have been found by a group of peasants near a gold mine illegal and abandonada. Falando in Maputo during a briefing on the main events of last week, the spokesman Command-general of the PRM, Inacio Dina, said a commission of inquiry set up to investigate the case found no evidence. The working committee that was created to move the supposed site (zone 76) found no evidence, did not find such a mass grave that made reference, can not find, talk to the alleged peasants who have shown local journalists , afirmou.Dina invited media outlets in possession of information on the alleged mass grave to cooperate with the authorities and indicate their sources to facilitate investigação.Essa is information of great interest to the police and we are interested in determining the veracity of this information, said the spokesman for then stressed that farmers were unable to identify the alleged comum.Dina ditch also refuted images conveyed through social networks that illustrate a common grave. The spokesman deplored the fact insisting that these images require a confirmation of its authenticity. However, they said that they could serve as the basis for an investigation. He appealed to the media to collaborate with the PRM in the search for truth on such news.

Renamo, the main opposition party in Mozambique, today defended an international investigation into the discovery of at least 15 bodies in Gorongosa, center of the country, noting that the country is at war and needs of foreign mediation. "We regret this atrocity and we that international organizations of human rights should be an investigation at the scene, to establish the facts, "he said, speaking to Lusa, the spokesman for the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), Antonio Muchanga.Para Muchanga, only one international research can bring light to the truth, claiming that national authorities are submissive to the government. "most of our human rights organizations are silent and only act by orders of the Government," the spokesman Renamo.António Muchanga said that Renamo has reported the alleged disappearance of his party members in the central provinces of the country, including in the province of Sofala, where is the Gorongosa district, stating that the country is at war. "for Renamo, if there are government forces practicing armed actions, we are in a war situation, "accused Muchanga.

The third Mozambican party in parliament, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), requires the involvement of justice and the Parliament in clarifying the revelation of a mass grave in the center of the country. Simango, leader of the MDM, told Lusa that the report revealed on Thursday about the discovery by a group of peasants from a mass grave of more than one hundred bodies in Gorongosa, in Sofala province, is aligned with the information in the possession of his party and disappearance of people in the region, but that "the authorities will always deny" .The opposition leader advanced that will send a team to the site, despite the security constraints imposed by the current military conflict, mentioning that among registered disappearances the MDGs in the area of ​​political party members and citizens are also included troops from its political force for almost a month. "All this is happening in Gorongosa", said Simango also mayor of Beira, capital of Sofala province, demanding investigations not only parliament as well as the Attorney General's Office, "which has the means and protection to reach the site safely" .The area is described as difficult access and high risk, given the presence of the military in the context of the current crisis military forces opposing the Government and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest administrator oposição.O party Gorongosa bucked on Friday the report of a group of farmers who assured the Lusa have observed a mass grave with more than one hundred corpses in the area 76, Canda administrative post in the district of Gorongosa.Segundo Manuel Jamaca, a team from the district government was sent to the site but did not find nada.A Sofala police announced that it will launch an investigation to determine the veracity of the discovery . "There is a lot going on and a lot of people to die in terrible circumstances," said the leader of the MDM, whereas one of the challenges the country is "the great lack of truth and justice of autonomy on the ground" .One of the three ears peasants by Lusa reported that "the trench is about 120 bodies, some already in bones and others decaying" without had bullet marks, suspecting just been discharged by vehicles due to signs of maneuvers on site. "There visible military remains and some bodies are naked, "described one of camponeses.Apesar to be no evidence that links this trench with the current military crisis in Mozambique, another peasant who was at the scene recalled the wave of persecution and executions for reasons policies and that the region has been the scene of fighting between the military wing of Renamo and Simango governamentais.Para forces, the existence of mass graves in Mozambique "is not new", referring to the civil war period (until 1992) and he noted that, although in the past there similar cases, "the authorities have no interest" .The Human rights Commission of Mozambique (CDHM) told Lusa on Friday who wants to determine the veracity of the alleged discovery reports mass grave in advance that, if confirmed, is a case "very disturbing" and urging the prosecutor also investigar.A Renamo and government forces keep fighting in the center of the country since 2013, with particular emphasis on the Gorongosa region where it is assumed the opposition leader meet, Afonso Dhlakama.No context of this crisis, which has worsened in recent months, there are several records of military confrontation between the parties, but no information or images on the respective low. "There images because the dead are hidden so as not to lower information, "said Simango, arguing that it is a human rights issue, where" families have the right to dignified funeral "and are incompatible with mass graves.