MBABANE: Mark Heywood, a human rights activist and writer for the Daily Maverick says there are no terrorists in eSwatini but political activists who are being killed by King Mswati for demanding democracy.
Speaking to NewsRoom Afrika TV on Sunday, the human rights activist maintained that there was no terrorism agenda in eSwatini but an agenda for democracy and human rights.
“There’s no terrorism agenda in eSwatini, there’s an agenda for democracy and for human rights. There are no terrorists in eSwatini,there are activists and the activists are being killed at the instruction of King Mswati III and members of his Government who are seeking to protect their extreme wealth.Mswati is one of the richest men in the world, in one of the poorest countries in the world. The people of Swaziland are fed-up, they want a decent life, they have been protesting for democracy. Just over a year ago on June the 29th, 2021,in those protests, more than a hundred people were gunned down by the Swaziland police and defense forces. As you and I speak today,there are two Members of Parliament(MPs) in Swaziland who are in prison, Members of Parliament!, just because they were supporting the democracy movement in that country. So that is what Mswati calls terrorism,” said the human rights activist.
Daily Maverick writer and human rights activist Mark Heywood.