More than 20 people have disappeared since January and their bodies dumped in mortuaries, roadside thickets and on river banks. Data maintained by police watchdog lobby, the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, shows the disappeared people were tortured before being killed. All it may take is to be suspected of anything criminal or be associated with criminals or unsavoury doings to become one of these statistics. Human rights groups and observers say they were probably killed either by elements in the police or rampaging criminal gangs who abduct, inflict maximum pain and kill. “The group is suspected to be part of the gang that killed Sheikh Omar Fumbwe and Bakari Hamisi Mwadondo in August 2019.

Source: The Star May 26, 2021 02:03 UTC