Together for tolerance!

During the demonstrations for the 1st May, World Day of the Worker, the Rapid Intervention Force was dispatched to prevent taxi drivers (riders) in the city of Quelimane to participate in the demonstration because they supported in the midterm election of December 2011 in candidate of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique, MDM, Manuel de Araújo, who won so loose, the candidate the candidate of the ruling party. Also, the police stopped and arrested young MDM in Macia, who wished to express, in the meantime, the young of the ruling party, dresses Camisetes flags and loudly walked to his class. Simango says he is very angry at the persistently a government anti - popular and undemocratic that captured the state and the institutions that should be at the service of all Mozambicans. It is extremely shocking, what has been happening in the country on Labor Day because the government bailed up the Rapid Intervention Force, FIR, to prevent ordinary people from participating in a peaceful demonstration. Our Constitution provides that citizens have the right to freely expressed, however, it is systematically violated by the police and several holders of administrative institutions without anybody blame.

In our society, a large portion of our countrymen survive in the informal sector. Cyclists are legally associated Quelimane, do not need to ask permission to anyone to demonstrate. You can make the best expressions when they think. In Maputo, a citizen who survives by selling mobile credits marched unmolested.

Police act the way threatens stability and peace. Mozambican citizen does not live fearing the police. No one can live under constant threats from the police. We condemn this attitude of the police. Police did not have under the legal point of view, which prohibit cyclists from participating in the demonstration. They are taxi drivers that live in Quelimane and service they provide to the public as we here at Edge we licensed cabbies drive. In Quelimane for bicycle taxi drivers. Can not dismiss a taxi driver because driving a bike and not a car. All are professionals and as such, everyone has the right to demonstrate. The Constitution does not establish any form of discrimination on the matter. More condemn this attitude of the police, especially the way comes armed authenticates a demonstration of declared war against defenseless citizens.

What would have taken the FIR to act that way? It is because there is a boss who sends in the police. This boss is called Frelimo Party. Frelimo is above the Mozambican state and all public and private institutions. It is this arrogance that leads to strike the state. Can not punish. We have an Attorney General's Office that assists undaunted and serene the excesses of the Frelimo Party. There are constant violations of human rights and says nothing. What happened in Quelimane is equal to the passed in Macia, Gaza. Members of the Democratic Movement Movement were prevented by police from marching in celebration of Labor Day. A young man named Herminio Mahanuque, leader of our Youth League was kept in the prison police from 08 to 16 hours, so as to inhibit our youth to march as members of the Organization of Mozambican Youth (youth league of the ruling party since National Independence) manifested freely Camisetes dresses and carrying flags of their party. Holders of the scheme say this travesty of democracy and above all speak who want to preserve the peace. With the mouth of peace while in practice sent to arrest the opposition, withdraw and tear and burn our flags our headquarters. We are against this attitude of the police chase a defenseless citizen who intend to use their constitutional rights. We condemn the police and their clients when they make black life to peaceful citizens. The Interior Minister has to explain to Mozambicans the reasons FIR prevent free professional and peaceful to express themselves. Where is the political tolerance? - It's all a big lie. The problem that we live beyond the issue of political tolerance. When police attack defenseless citizens seeking to express their feelings, it goes beyond the issue of political tolerance. The matter is much more serious than one can imagine. We have an unruly and undemocratic country that uses every means at its disposal, including illegal methods, to perpetuate itself in power, even against the popular will, emphasizes Simango.(President of MDM)