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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The widow of the leader of the self-proclaimed Renamo Military Junta leader, Mariano Nhongo, who was killed in combat in October, is demanding the release of her seven children, allegedly kidnapped a year ago by elements of the Defence and Security Forces (FDS).<\/p>\n

But the police say that there is no record of any such occurrence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the government to return the children to me. Their father is already dead. He was in the military and died in service, so the children were kidnapped because of their father\u2019s work,\u201d says Am\u00e9lia Marcelino, herself a survivor of the ambush in which her husband lost his life, in statements to VOA.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the Chisena language, Am\u00e9lia Marcelino, a former Renamo guerrilla demobilised with the rank of Major, emphasises that among the kidnapped children is Nhongo\u2019s eldest son, who should have been playing a crucial role in his father\u2019s absence, since \u201calready I don\u2019t have the strength to take care\u201d of all the children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ask the [Mozambican] government, if it has already killed them, to tell me,\u201d Marcelino says. Like other family members, she believes that her children were kidnapped as a way of forcing Mariano Nhongo to surrender.<\/p>\n

But a spokesman for the police in Sofala contacted by VOA says that the corporation has no record of Mariano Nhongo\u2019s children being abducted.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf kidnapped children of Mariano Nhongo, I have no knowledge. I have no knowledge of any abduction taking place or being reported to any police subunit,\u201d Daniel Macuacua said.<\/p>\n

Nhongo, who opposed the leadership of Ossufo Momade in Renamo and demanded the reformulation of the peace agreement with the government, claimed or was accused of attacks that killed dozens of people in Sofala and Manica, central Mozambique.<\/p>\n

Political analyst Wilker Dias says the case is a social consequence of the founder of the self-proclaimed Military Junta\u2019s negative legacy, but considers Am\u00e9lia Marcelino\u2019s demand \u201clegitimate, coming from a mother\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer speech shows acceptance that the conflict is over, that the main head of this conflict no longer exists, so there is no longer any reason to keep the children in captivity,\u201d Dias says.<\/p>\n

Am\u00e9lia Marcelino was demobilised, but re-joined the ranks of Renamo, and then the Military Junta, when the conflict in central Mozambique reignited.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. The widow of the leader of the self-proclaimed Renamo Military Junta leader, Mariano Nhongo, who was killed in combat in October, is demanding the release of her seven children, allegedly kidnapped a year ago by elements of the Defence and Security Forces (FDS). 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