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Using harsh justice to resolve a political struggle could lead to youth radicalisation and violence in eastern Angola.<\/p>\n
On 30 July, an Angolan court sentenced 198 people – men, women and the elderly – to four to eight years in jail for various crimes including criminal association, rioting, rebellion and damage to public property.<\/p>\n
They had been part of a peaceful protest<\/a> last year in support of the autonomy<\/a> of the Lunda people in the diamond-rich Lunda Sul Province in eastern Angola. The protesters…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Using harsh justice to resolve a political struggle could lead to youth radicalisation and violence in eastern Angola. On 30 July, an Angolan court sentenced 198 people – men, women and the elderly – to four to eight years in jail for various crimes including criminal association, rioting, rebellion and damage to public property. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631139:ebf2fccbfb20dc25a52732ca6621b278:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,13368,14409,7570,257,4397,13742,254,2148],"class_list":["post-178519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-crackdown","tag-fuel","tag-news","tag-protesters","tag-separatist","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631139:ebf2fccbfb20dc25a52732ca6621b278:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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