Editing SWAPO (section)

== Human rights abuses ==
Various groups have claimed that SWAPO committed serious human rights abuses against suspected spies during the independence struggle. Since the early 21st century, they have pressed the government more strongly on this issue. [[Breaking the Wall of Silence]] (BWS) is one of the groups founded by people who were detained by SWAPO during the war and abused during interrogations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051119084534/http://www.namibian.com.na/2003/november/national/0396AF0E7.html "Church council's stance on detainees revives apartheid rhetoric, charges the NSHR"], ''The Namibian,'' 18 November 2003</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060105002048/http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/October/national/05DD6374DC.html "Ex-detainee issue still runs deep"], ''The Namibian,'' 4 October 2005</ref> In 2004, BWS alleged that "In exile, hundreds of SWAPO dependants and members were detained, tortured and killed without trial."<ref name=Kapuuo>{{cite journal |title=Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo? |last=Gewald |first=Jan-Bart |journal=[[Journal of Southern African Studies]] |volume=30 |issue=3 |date=September 2004 |pages=559–576 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/4851/asc-1293873-058.pdf?sequence=1 |issn=0305-7070 |doi=10.1080/0305707042000254100 |hdl=1887/4851 |s2cid=146448312 |access-date=3 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607001612/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/4851/asc-1293873-058.pdf?sequence=1 |archive-date=7 June 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all |hdl-access=free}}</ref> SWAPO denies serious infractions and claims anything that did happen was in the name of liberation. Because of a series of successful South African raids, the SWAPO leadership believed that spies existed in the movement. Hundreds of SWAPO cadres were imprisoned, tortured and interrogated.<ref name="leys">{{cite book |last1=Leys |first1=C. |first2=S. |last2=Brown |year=2005 |title=Histories of Namibia |location=London |publisher=Merlin Press |isbn=0-85036-499-X}}</ref>