Community police officers in Swaziland / Eswatini attacked
a man described as ‘mentally disturbed’ and beat him close to death, a
newspaper in the kingdom reported.
The Swazi Observer
on Tuesday (12 June 2018) said five officers at Ngoloweni in Sandleni were
accused of beating a 44-year-old man after claims that he attempted to rape a girl
aged six.
The newspaper reported police and local residents ‘pounced
on him and without saying much, he was handcuffed and heavily assaulted with
sticks. He was also slapped and kicked all over the body.’
The Observer
described the man as ‘mentally disturbed’ with ‘speech challenges’.
Police said they were investigating the incident.
There have been numerous reports in Swaziland of
community police officers acting violently.
In April
2018 it was reported that two community police officers in Swaziland
stripped a man naked, tied him to a tree and flogged his bare buttocks with
sticks until they bled profusely. It happened at Malindza after they had
accused him of stealing pots from his grandfather’s house. They were helped by
one of his female cousins.
In March
2018 a court heard that three
community policemen gang-raped a 17-year-old schoolgirl at knifepoint and
forced her boyfriend to watch. One of them recorded it on his cellphone. The
teenager was in her school uniform while she and her boyfriend walked to a
river after a school athletics competition. The community policemen told
them they were on patrol to make sure none of the pupils committed any offences
during the athletics competition.
In 2014 three Malindza community police beat to death a mentally
challenged man who had escaped from the National Psychiatric Centre.
In 2011 community police in Kwaluseni reportedly threatened
to murder democracy activist Musa Ngubeni if
he was released on bail pending trial on explosive offences. Residents accused
the community police in the area of being involved in criminal
activities.
See also
POLICE
GANG-RAPE SCHOOLGIRL
COMMUNITY
POLICE BANISH GAY MEN
KWALUSENI
POLICE ‘ARE CRIMINALS’
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