MABUNDA, Ken

For Owen Mabunda his pain is mixed with guilt. // I was still very young. I thought maybe it was going to be better if the bomb killed me, because I was still at school. Me as his brother, his elder brother, I should not have allowed him to be involved in all these things. He died, there’s ...

Many of those shot seemed to have been attacked while running down the hill towards the house of Stefelina Mabunda. // I never saw anything but I heard guns shooting. Firstly I heard boys singing. After that I heard guns shooting in the vicinity. We were very scared. After the guns stopped I peeped ...

I think those who have done this to our brothers are the people at five rank, those mercenaries, soldiers from outside countries who were brought in here to harass us as citizens of this country. And you know, just to kill so that we must surrender.

For the families of the victims the pain has never stopped. // I want the government to help me, because it was the government’s agents who killed my son in the first place, it was not thugs, but government employees. Even the hand grenades that were used belonged to the government. // The way ...

shook the community of Lulekani. The lives of six young people were taken and seven more were seriously wounded. One of them was the brother of Owen ...