http://macua.blogs.com/moambique_para_todos/2010/05/mocodoene-criminosos-alvejam-padre-e-sofrem-baixa.html # more
degradation that the crisis economy is more acute in the world, is reflected in Mozambique in recent days and the above link will give you an example. Until now, the country has been considered - in a sense also to reason - a quiet village, where rates of violence were on the whole low compared to most agitated neighbors is a given fact that real than the countries that surround it, South Africa, Angola, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, it has always been crime and peak flows less intense and more controlled.
Lately, however, an escalation of violence is leaving traces of his presence, from north to south and from south to north - still spreading, luckily, at a pace not too alarming. On the one hand there is the reflection dell'acutizzarsi approfonditasi of inequality and made more unbearable by the recent economic crisis on both sides, and instead, the restriction of immigration laws in South Africa that has forced many Mozambicans forced to return home after years of frustration and discrimination in South African soil.
These two factors have generated discontent with the present mainly in the north, where the constituent opposition - RENAMO - is stronger and carries with it years of political frustration, the exponential growth of violent gangs that are involved that attack without the exception of citizenship. The last episode goes back a few days ago and has alarmed eyes more critical. It 'was in fact attacked the Catholic mission of Mocoduene, a tiny town in the province of Inhambane and injured by blows of a firearm, father Thiago known and respected by the community for its long-term commitment.
A frightening fact is not simply the personal attack, theft or loss of property, though important, is that a scare in these attacks do not recognize the slightest attention to discern between those who are actively engaged in the same communities in which the robbers were born and raised and the municipality Mzungu - white. This can mean different things and raises several questions: you're losing the link with the community? We are no longer able let us know by the people of the villages where we work? Poverty is the only maker of enlargement to wildfire target of thieves?
The fact that more and more missions are non-governmental organizations or the target of these thefts, it means to widen, moreover, is also the gap between the work of the fathers or operators and local communities. There is, perhaps, a problem of perception and communication, and then received the message that these institutions carry through their - our - work. E 'and then ask ourselves whether we need to redefine the tools of dialogue and community involvement to clarify that our local presence, with some exceptions, is not a "new colonial presence" - or at least not only, as is being debated recently in Europe.
I think it is important that the first step from us "development agents" and in possession of the means to refine and calibrate the involvement of communities in our projects. For if there is or there is a bug in the communications state, are also part of our responsibility. After all, the challenge is present and at stake is the very success of our projects, as well as long-term development.
We challenge ourselves! and our own philosophical and policy evolution that led us to deny decades ethnocentrism in favor of an open approach to knowledge, understanding of and exchange with him.
Sara Braga
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