Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Volume:
21
Issue:
3
93
Abstract:
On January 21, 2005, Canada deported Anibal dos Santos, known as Anibalzinho, to Mozambique to stand trial for his part in the murder of Mozambique’s foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso.
Anibalzinho has escaped twice from the Maputo top security prison. He was tried in absentia after he mysteriously disappeared from a Maputo top security prison on September 1, 2002. He was arrested by South African police on the outskirts of Pretoria, speedily returned to Maputo, where he arrived just hours after Judge Augusto Paulino had sentenced him. At his trial two members of the death squad, hitman Carlitos Rashid and lookout Manuel Fernandes, had testified against him...