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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Shola Lawal

‘Ready to die’: Protesters face bullets for political change in Mozambique

A protester in Maputo throws a stone during a strike called by presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest the provisional results of the October 9 election [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique: Young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds; teenagers with eyes swollen shut from being hit with tear gas canisters by the Mozambican police.

Chissungo, 28, who is documenting the scale of ongoing post-election violence that broke out last week, says the images of dead and injured people circulating online have caused her to lose sleep.

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