Mishake Muyongo

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Mishake Muyongo (1976)
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Mishake Muyongo (born April 28, 1940 in Linyanti , South West Africa ) is the leader of the former separatists in the Caprivi Strip , the Zambezi region (until 2013 Caprivi ) in Namibia . He has lived in exile in Denmark since 1999 .

Career

Muyongo first attended the Catholic Mission School in Katima Mulilo and then the Gokomero Mission School in the former Rhodesia . There he graduated from high school in 1961 and worked as a teacher. In 1964, Muyongo became chairman of the Caprivi African National Union (CANU), his predecessor Brendan Simbwaye shortly before disappeared without a trace. It is believed that Simbwaye was kidnapped and killed by South Africans. Muyongo fled to Lusaka in Zambia when South Africa, which included Namibia at the time, attacked the CANU office in Katima Mulilo. Muyongo has been named vice chairman of SWAPO during Brendan Simbwaye's absence. In Dar es Salaam , Muyongo joined forces with the CANU in November 1964 with Sam Nujoma's South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The terms of the CANU merger with SWAPO are still controversial today. According to the CANU representatives, the future independence for Caprivi was agreed upon during the merger. The SWAPO representatives, on the other hand, reject any agreement that was conditional on secession from Namibia.

Muyongo was confirmed as deputy chairman of SWAPO at the Tanga Congress in 1969/70. In 1972 he organized an international Namibia conference in Brussels on behalf of SWAPO . In the 1970s, Muyongo continued to live in Lusaka, where he played an important role in crushing an internal party rebellion within SWAPO against Sam Nujoma. In doing so, he used his connections with the Zambian government and the security forces there. As a SWAPO representative, he took part in the negotiations on the peace plan for Namibia in 1978. However, its importance within SWAPO was diminished when it moved its headquarters to Luanda , Angola , as SWAPO opened a military front from Angola in the mid-1970s and Muyongo remained in Lusaka. He left Swapo in 1980 after allegations of wanting to revive the CANU party in Zambia. He was detained by Zambian authorities for two weeks in 1984, after which he moved to Dakar , Senegal . In July 1985 he returned to Namibia. In 1985, Muyongo founded the United Democratic Party - Caprivi Freedom and became its chairman. The UDP joined the party alliance Democratic Gym Alliance (DTA). In 1987, Muyongo was elected vice chairman of the DTA. At the end of 1991 he was elected DTA chairman. He took part in the 1994 presidential elections for the DTA and came in second behind Sam Nujoma with 23% of the vote .

In 1994 he was one of the founders of the Caprivi Liberation Army , an armed fighting force for a liberation struggle. Ever since Namibia's independence, the Caprivi region has been characterized by a political desire for more independence that differs from the state as a whole. The Caprivi conflict escalated in October 1998 when a military training camp of the Caprivi Liberation Army was dismantled by the Namibian security forces. In the course of the fight against the separatist activities of the Caprivi Liberation Army, the entire population of Caprivi was placed under the general suspicion of being potential rebels. Because of the repression of the population, around 2500 people fled to Botswana , including Mishake Muyongo. He was excluded from the DTA in 1998 because of separatist activities. Muyongo received in 1999 as another leader of the separatists, Boniface Bwimo Bebi Mamili VI. , political asylum in Denmark and lives there in exile.

The Caprivi Liberation Army started an uprising in the Caprivi Strip on August 2, 1999 . Rebels raided several strategic places in the Caprivi regional capital Katima Mulilo, including the police station, radio station and the airport. Within a few days the uprising was put down by army and police units . Among the 14 people killed were police officers, soldiers, rebels and civilians. 140 people were arrested and charged with high treason and 274 other offenses. Approx. In 2009, 120 men were detained without conviction. By 2009, more men died in custody than were killed in the fighting in 1999.

Web links

Commons : Mishake Muyongo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government should ignore Mishake Muyongo. In: Namibian Sun. July 2, 2012 ( namibiansun.com ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 24, 2013).
  2. ↑ BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN PERSONALITIES. Dr. Klaus Dierks, 2003-2004, accessed February 24, 2013.
  3. ^ A b Henning Melber : Namibia's forgotten political prisoners. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . July 31, 2009, accessed February 24, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Muyongo, Mishake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian separatist leader in the Caprivi region of Namibia
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Linyanti , Namibia