THE SWAZILAND SOLIDARITY NETWORK [SSN] STATEMENT ON THE ACQUITTAL OF PUDEMO PRESIDENT
COMRADE MARIO MASUKU
22 September 2009
The Swaziland Solidarity Network welcomes the acquittal of the PUDEMO President Comrade Mario Masuku from fictitious charges of terrorism. SSN never doubted the innocence of the people’s President against these allegations made by a desperate regime. His only crime was to call for democratisation of Swaziland, a legitimate demand which we fully support. We salute the president for sacrificing in raising the revolutionary banner and inspiring the people of Swaziland towards a battle for freedom.
During his incarceration, the Swaziland Solidarity Network [SSN] staged 37 demonstrations since his arrest and we wish to reaffirm our ongoing support to the people of Swaziland led by the People’s United Democratic Movement PUDEMO in their quest for democratisation. We stand by our demands that we have been submitting to King Mswati through the Swazi Consulate that:
The Swazi regime should stop all forms of repression against political dissent and opposition parties
The monarch should abolish all indiscriminate detention of activists
The South African internationalist Amoss Mbendzi should be unconditionally and immediately released from jail
A democratically constituent assembly should be elected to develop a new constitution for a new constitutional Multi-party democracy
The draconian 1973 decree which bans political parties and all forms of legitimate political activity should be removed
All Swazi exiles should unconditionally return back to their country
Meanwhile the Swaziland Solidarity Network [SSN] will be commemorating our departed martyrs comrade Advocate Musa Dlamini aka “MJ” and comrade Jack Govender aka Sipho Khumalo “MK” allies, the commemoration will be on the 26th September 2009 at COSATU House Braamfontein 10h00.
Issued by the Swaziland Solidarity Network [SSN] South Africa.
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