According to the Vice-President for Communication and Marketing of Convergência Ampla de Salação de Angola - Coigação Eleitoral (CASA-CE), Cesinanda Xavier, her coalition and the Angolans need an explanation about the death of the young demonstrator.
"We all want to know the reason why this citizen died. A death is always a death, and one should not engage in gratuitous violence, because the citizens were defenseless and the police are going armed," he said this Friday in an interview with Lusa.
For Cesinanda Xavier, "there is no need to use extreme force to the point of taking a life and especially a young life.
"Because young people are the precursors of change," she said, considering that "there is no need to repress those who claim their right.
"The police must offer security and have a pedagogical action," he said.
Police and activists differ on the causes of the young man's death, a 26-year-old university student, with protesters claiming he was shot in the head and died immediately, while police forces deny having used bullets and a hospital official said the man entered the hospital still alive, with signs of having suffered head trauma from a "blunt object", but would die after a surgical intervention.
Cesinanda Xavier, also vice-president of the parliamentary group of CASA-CE, also said that all these demonstrations and all the social, economic and political degradation of the country "should require immediate resolution by the Angolan executive.
"We assume that the demonstrations are a right of the citizens and in face of the social degradation in the point where it meets, it is natural that people want to demonstrate as pressure for the executive to improve the living conditions of citizens, especially young people," she said.
The demonstration, promoted by the same organizers who had already seen a protest repressed by the police last month, aimed to demand better living conditions and the holding of the first local elections in 2021, after being postponed this year due to covid-19.
