Mishake Muyongo

Mishake Muyongo ( born April 28, 1940 in Linyanti, Namibia ) is the leader of the separatists in the Caprivi region in Namibia. He lives in exile in Denmark since 1999.

Career

Muyongo first attended the Catholic Mission School in Katima Mulilo and then Gokomero mission school in the former Rhodesia. There he made the 1961 high school graduation and was soon working as a teacher. 1964 Muyongo Chairman of the Caprivi African National Union ( CANU ), its predecessor Brendan Simbwaye disappeared shortly before without a trace. It is believed that Simbwaye was kidnapped and killed by South Africans. Muyongo fled to Lusaka in Zambia as South Africa, Namibia was also at that time that attacked CANU office in Katima Mulilo. Muyongo was appointed Deputy Chairman of SWAPO during the absence of Brendan Simbwaye. In Dar es Salaam, to Muyongo closed in November 1964, the CANU with Sam Nujoma 's South - Wesant Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ). The terms of the CANU merger with Swapo are still controversial. According to the CANU representative of future independence of Caprivi was agreed in the merger. The Swapo officials, however, deny any agreement which had a spin-off from Namibia to the condition.

Muyongo was confirmed as SWAPO's Deputy Chairman in the Tanga Congress in 1969-70. In 1972 he organized on behalf of SWAPO an international conference on Namibia in Brussels. In the 1970s Muyongo continued living in Lusaka, where he played an important role in the suppression of an internal party rebellion within the SWAPO against Sam Nujoma. He used his connections with the Zambian government and the local security forces. He participated in the negotiations on the peace plan for Namibia in 1978 as Swapo representative. Its importance within the SWAPO has been reduced as these moved its headquarters to Luanda in Angola, as SWAPO in the mid-1970s, a military front from Angola opened, and Muyongo in Lusaka remained. He left the Swapo in 1980 as he was accused of wanting to revive the party CANU in Zambia again. From Zambian authorities he was detained for two weeks in 1984. He moved now to Dakar in Senegal. In July 1985, he returned to Namibia. In 1985, Muyongo the United Democratic Party - Caprivi Freedom ( United Democratic Party, UDP) and became its chairman. The UDP joined the Democratic Party Alliance Gym Alliance ( DTA). In 1987 Muyongo was elected to the DTA as Vice-Chairman. He was elected chairman DTA end of 1991. He took part in the 1994 presidential election for the DTA and reached the second place, with 23 % of the vote, according to Sam Nujoma.

In 1994 he was one of the founders of the Caprivi Liberation Army, an armed fighting force for a liberation struggle. Ever since the independence of Namibia, the Caprivi region was characterized by a deviating from the general government political desire for more autonomy. In October 1998, the Caprivi conflict escalated as a military training camp of the Caprivi Liberation Army was dug by the security forces in Namibia. As part of the fight against the separatist activities of the Caprivi Liberation Army, the entire population of Caprivi was placed under the package suspected of being potential rebels. Because of the repression of the population fled about 2500 people to Botswana, including Mishake Muyongo. He was expelled from the DTA in 1998 for separatist activities. Muyongo received in 1999 as a leader of the other separatists, Boniface Mamili political asylum in Denmark and lived there in exile.

The Caprivi Liberation Army began on 2 August 1999 an uprising in the Caprivi. Rebels raided several strategic places in the Caprivi Region capital Katima Mulilo, including police station, radio station and the airport. Within a few days of the uprising by army and police units, beaten without much regard for the civilian population, down. Among the 14 people killed were police officers, soldiers, rebels and civilians. 140 people were arrested and charged with high treason and other offenses 274. At the 120 men in 2009 were without a conviction behind bars. By 2009, more men died in detention than 1999 perished in the fighting.