/ 19 February 2001

ANGOLAN MILITARY IMPLICATED IN STOCK THEFT

ANGOLAN paramilitary Civil Defence Force Unit members have allegedly stolen livestock from villagers inside Namibia and sold them for about $10 each. Human rights sources within the Namibian Defence Force said members of the Walvis Bay-based artillery battalion earlier this year robbed Angolan villagers of between 45 and 50 heads of cattle.