In an email response to Lusa, the source of the cabinet led by Jordanian Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein confirmed that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ((OHCHR) received allegations about the existence of a mass grave in Gorongosa.
However, the cabinet has yet to verify the veracity of the reports “mainly due to lack of access to the area,” explained the same source.
The OHCHR, based in Geneva, is therefore “in contact with the authorities to get more information about these very serious allegations and to request access to the area where the alleged mass grave is located,” can be read in the response.
The existence of the mass grave with more than a hundred corpses, was reported Lusa last week, by peasants who say they were attracted to the site by the strong smell of putrefaction exhaled by corpses.
Local authorities denied the existence of the mass grave, but witnesses confirm their version.
On Sunday, days after the complaint made by the farmers, a group of journalists, including a Lusa reporter went to the site and although prevented by the military from approaching the site where the mass grave was, they saw at least 15 abandoned bodies scattered nearby.
The bodies are those of young women and young men, some apparently dumped recently and others now without clothes and pecked over by vultures.
On Tuesday, the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) said it found no evidence of the existence of bodies, denying the reports of journalists.
“One of the aspects we want to emphasise is, let’s pay a little more attention and be careful when we give credence to some of the things we read on social networks,” said PRM spokesman Inácio Dina, suggesting that the images published by Lusa about the 15 bodies may have been manipulated.
The central government has not yet ruled on this issue, as the Attorney General’s Office.
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