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DATE=8/2/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=NAMIBIA FIGHTING (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-252412
BYLINE=DELIA ROBERTSON
DATELINE=JOHANNESBURG
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  In Namibia's "Caprivi Strip," suspected 
supporters of a secessionist movement attacked a 
military base and temporarily occupied the offices of 
the state-owned "Namibian Broadcasting Corporation".  
At least 10 people are reported dead.  And, as V-O-A's 
Delia Robertson reports from our Southern Africa 
Bureau, the Government says it has retaken the 
occupied broadcasting offices at Katima Mulilo.  
TEXT:  The Namibian Government says it repulsed an 
attack on a military base and police station in the 
small town of Katima Mulilo in the country's Caprivi 
Strip.  The Government also said it has retaken the 
offices of the state-owned "Namibian Broadcasting 
Corporation" after they were occupied by an unknown 
number of individuals, whom the Government says are 
part of a secessionist group.
A spokesperson for the Namibian Broadcasting 
Corporation says Defense Force units fired mortar 
bombs at the offices in Katima Mulilo to drive out the 
group occupying the building.  
The small town was rocked by gunfire from midnight as 
the military base, the police station, and the 
broadcaster's office came under attack.
The Namibian Defense Force says the attackers are 
believed to be members of a group seeking the 
independence of the Caprivi Strip from Namibia.  Last 
year a group known as the "Caprivi Liberation Front" 
was established in the Caprivi, a narrow strip of land 
in northern Namibia bordered by Botswana, Angola, 
Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Fifteen leaders of the Front sought refuge in Botswana 
after the Namibian government said it had found a 
military training camp run by the group.  They were 
followed by more than two-thousand others, most of 
whom said they were not members of the Front, but fled 
because they were being harassed by government forces.
Apart from the 15 leaders of the Caprivi Liberation 
Front, most of the other refugees returned to Namibia 
this year.   (SIGNED)
NEB/DAR/PCF/RAE
02-Aug-1999 12:18 PM LOC (02-Aug-1999 1618 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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