Malawi police find more bodies near mass grave that contained 25 Ethiopians
By Nimi Princewill, CNN
Published 5:59 AM EDT, Fri October 21, 2022
Malawi's Minister of Homeland Security, Jean Sendeza visits Mtangatanga forest.
Waziri wa Usalama wa Ndani wa Malawi, Jean Sendeza atembelea msitu wa Mtangatanga ambako wanakijiji waligundua kaburi la pamoja.where villagers discovered a mass grave.
Four more bodies of suspected illegal migrants from Ethiopia have been found near the site of a mass grave in northern Malawi that contained the remains of 25 Ethiopian nationals, according to police in the southern African country.
Malawi police spokesman Peter Kalaya said the Ethiopians were suspected victims of human trafficking. The four bodies were discovered a day after the corpses of 25 Ethiopian migrants were exhumed from a mass grave in northern Malawi’s Mzimba district. The 25 victims were males aged between 25 and 40 years, police found.
In a Thursday update, Kalaya said: “The (newly-discovered) bodies were found … in a decomposed state on the ground about a kilometer from a mass grave where 25 other bodies were exhumed on Wednesday within Mtangatanga Forest Reserve.”
He added that an autopsy was being performed on the victims to determine the cause of death.
Kalaya told CNN on Friday that some arrests have been made.
“Seventy-two Ethiopians have been arrested for ‘illegal entry’ which contravenes Malawi’s Immigration laws (and) ten Malawians have been arrested because we suspect they were aiding these illegal migrants through Malawi,” the police spokesman said.
Malawi has increasingly become a popular route for syndicates who smuggle undocumented migrants, mainly from the Horn of Africa, through the southern African country, with the aim of reaching South Africa, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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Malawi's Minister of Homeland Security, Jean Sendeza visited Mtangatanga forest where villagers discovered a mass grave with 25 bodies, and five more bodies were found after further search around the forest.
“We intercept illegal migrants now and again in the country,” Kalaya told CNN of the Malawi government’s crackdown on illegal migrants, stating that many of those intercepted are Ethiopians and Somalians.
More than 200 illegal migrants were intercepted in the last eight months, he stated, adding that 186 of them were Ethiopian nationals.
Last year, more than 100 Ethiopians were returned to their country “after being found stranded in the borders of Malawi”, the country’s immigration service said at the time.
In 2012, nearly 50 migrants from Ethiopia lost their lives when their boat capsized while crossing Lake Malawi.
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Malawi police find more bodies near mass grave that contained 25 Ethiopians | CNN
By Nimi Princewill, CNN
Published 5:59 AM EDT, Fri October 21, 2022
Miili minne zaidi ya watu wanaoshukiwa kuwa wahamiaji haramu kutoka Ethiopia imepatikana karibu na eneo la kaburi la umati kaskazini mwa Malawi ambalo lilikuwa na mabaki ya raia 25 wa Ethiopia, kwa mujibu wa polisi katika nchi hiyo ya kusini mwa Afrika.
Msemaji wa polisi wa Malawi Peter Kalaya alisema Waethiopia hao walikuwa wahanga wa ulanguzi wa binadamu. Miili hiyo minne iligunduliwa siku moja baada ya maiti 25 za wahamiaji wa Ethiopia kutolewa kutoka kwenye kaburi la pamoja katika wilaya ya Mzimba kaskazini mwa Malawi. Wahasiriwa 25 walikuwa wanaume wenye umri wa kati ya miaka 25 na 40, polisi waligundua.
Katika sasisho la Alhamisi, Kalaya alisema: "Miili (iliyopatikana hivi karibuni) ilipatikana ... katika hali iliyoharibika chini ya kilomita moja kutoka kwa kaburi la pamoja ambapo miili mingine 25 ilitolewa Jumatano ndani ya Hifadhi ya Msitu wa Mtangatanga."
Kalaya aliiambia CNN Ijumaa kwamba watu wengine wamekamatwa.
"Waethiopia 72 wamekamatwa kwa 'kuingia kinyume cha sheria' jambo ambalo linakiuka sheria za Uhamiaji za Malawi (na) Wamalawi kumi wamekamatwa kwa sababu tunashuku walikuwa wakiwasaidia wahamiaji hao haramu kupitia Malawi," msemaji wa polisi alisema.
Malawi imezidi kuwa njia maarufu kwa wanaharakati wanaosafirisha wahamiaji wasio na vibali, hasa kutoka Pembe ya Afrika, kupitia nchi hiyo ya kusini mwa Afrika, kwa lengo la kufika Afrika Kusini, kulingana na Ofisi ya Umoja wa Mataifa ya Uratibu wa Masuala ya Kibinadamu.
Waziri wa Usalama wa Ndani wa Malawi, Jean Sendeza alitembelea msitu wa Mtangatanga ambako wanakijiji waligundua kaburi la pamoja likiwa na miili 25, na miili mingine mitano ilipatikana baada ya msako zaidi kuzunguka msitu huo.
"Tunawazuia wahamiaji haramu mara kwa mara nchini," Kalaya aliiambia CNN kuhusu ukandamizaji wa serikali ya Malawi dhidi ya wahamiaji haramu, akisema kwamba wengi wa waliokamatwa ni Waethiopia na Wasomali.
Zaidi ya wahamiaji haramu 200 walinaswa katika kipindi cha miezi minane iliyopita, alisema, akiongeza kuwa 186 kati yao walikuwa raia wa Ethiopia.
Mwaka jana, zaidi ya Waethiopia 100 walirudishwa nchini mwao "baada ya kupatikana wamekwama katika mipaka ya Malawi", huduma ya uhamiaji ya nchi hiyo ilisema wakati huo.
Mwaka 2012, karibu wahamiaji 50 kutoka Ethiopia walipoteza maisha wakati mashua yao ilipopinduka walipokuwa wakivuka Ziwa Malawi.
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