Deportation of UNITA soldiers to go ahead

The ministry of home affairs is going ahead with the deportation of more than 80 alleged UNITA soldiers and collaborators despite a High Court ruling that the planned deportation of former UNITA representative Jose Domingos Sikunda was illegal, the ‘Namibian’ said on Monday. The alleged UNITA soldiers and collaborators were declared prohibited immigrants and set for deportation on the recommendation of the security commission. They have been incarcerated for more than eight months without charge and taken to Dordabis where they were initially held secretly for more than a month. The government was quoted as saying that it had liased with UNHCR on how best to deport the group. At least 82 alleged UNITA soldiers and collaborators are being held without trial at Dordabis, 100 km south east of Windhoek.