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CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 LILONG 00221 131715Z 43 ACTION AF-08 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-04 H-02 INR-07 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-01 PRS-01 SP-02 SS-15 USIA-06 SAM-01 IGA-02 AID-05 EB-07 /082 W --------------------- 111498 R 121308Z MAY 76 FM AMEMBASSY LILONGWE TO SECSTATE WASHDC 093 INFO AMEMBASSY CAPE TOWN AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM AMEMBASSY LONDON AMEMBASSY LUSAKA AMEMBASSY MAPUTO AMEMBASSY MBABANE AMEMBASSY NAIROBI C O N F I D E N T I A L LILONGWE 0221 E.O. 11652: GDS TAGS: PINT, PINS, SHUM, MI SUBJECT: BANDA EXPELS GOANS 1. SMALL GOAN COMMUNITY IN MALAWI OF ABOUT 100 FAMILIES (ABOUT 500 PEOPLE), 60-70 PERCENT OF WHOM HAVE UK PASSPORTS, RECEIVED 72-HOUR "PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT" EXPULSION NOTICES MAY 7. DEMARCHES BY UK HIGH COMMISSION AND ASIAN WITH ACCESS TO LIFE PRESIDENT BANDA RESULTED IN EXTENSION OF EXPULSION ORDER TO JUNE 30. 2. SOME THREE WEEKS AGO INCIDENT OCCURRED IN GOAN CLUB IN BLANTYRE RESULTING IN ARREST OF CLUB MEMBER WHO ALLEGEDLY ASKED THAT RADIO BROADCAST OF BANDA SPEECH BE TURNED OFF. FOLLOWING INCIDENT MALAWI SPECIAL BRANCH POLICE ROUNDED UP ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF CLUB (VIRTUALLY ALL GOANS IN MALAWI) IN BLANTYRE FOR QUESTIONING. ALL ADULT MALE MEMBERS THEREAFTER DETAINED AT PRISON AT MULANJE (SOME 70 MILES FROM BLANTYRE) FOR 16 DAYS UNDER CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 LILONG 00221 131715Z WHAT DESCRIBED AS VERY TRYING CONDITIONS. SEVEN EUROPEAN MEMBERS OF CLUB ALSO DETAINED BUT SOON RELEASED. 3. UNDERSTAND THAT ALL DETAINEES, SAVE ONE WHO ACTUALLY SPARKED INCIDENT AND FEW MALAWIANS WHO HAD WORKED FOR CLUB, HAVE NOW BEEN RELEASED. HOWEVER, RELEASES WERE FOLLOWED BY 72 HOUR EXPULSION ORDERS. ASIAN WITH GOOD ACCESS TO PRESIDENT BANDA PLEADED TO NO AVAIL TO HAVE EXPULSIONS RESCINDED, MAKING CASE THAT PUBLIC REACTION WOULD BE BAD AND THAT GOAN COMMUNITY WAS QUIET, LAW-ABIDING AND HARD WORKING. THIS DEMARCHE AND ONE OF UK HIGH COMMISSION SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING DATE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30. UK HIGH COMMISSION MAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT STATUS CA ARRIVAL IN UK OF SOME 350-400 REFUGEES. 4. COMMENT: THESE LATEST ARBITRARY EXPULSIONS, THIS TIME HITTING ENTIRE COMMUNITY, FURTHER ATTEST TO INCREASING XENOPHOBIA AND PARANOIA OF BANDA REGIME. PARTY SECGEN MUWALO AND SPECIAL BRANCH CHIEF GWEDE THOUGHT TO BE ACTING LARGELY ON THEIR OWN, FEEDING AGING PRESIDENT INFORMATION TO SUIT ENDS ABOUT WHICH WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE. ONE GOOD PROBABILITY IS THAT INNER GROUP HEADED BY MUWALO IS ACTING INCREASINGLY TO ENSURE RETENTION OF POWER IN POST-BANDA SUCCESSION. THIS MAY WELL ALSO BE COMPLEMENTED BY SIMPLE GREED, E.G. GOAN PROPERTIES AND POSSESSIONS OF ALL KINDS WILL GO AT FIRE SALE PRICES AND JOBS WILL BE OPEN FOR MALAWIANS. 5. EXPULSIONS OF GOANS HARD TO EXPLAIN ON ANY REASONABLE BASIS AS THEY WERE QUIET MINORITY WHO GOT ALONG WELL AND FILLED MANY OF THE IMPORTANT WHITE- COLLAR JOBS. THERE IS SOME SPECULATION THAT THEIR PORTUGUESE CONDATIONS (I.E. CONNECTIONS WITH MOZAMBIQUE) WERE FEARED. WE HAVE LEARNED THAT GOAN CLUB HAD BEEN UNDER SURVILLANCE FOR SOME TIME. 6. ADVERSE PUBLICITY WELL SURELY FOLLOW REFUGEES' ARRIVAL IN UK, PARTICULARLY COMING ON TOP OF WELL ORCHESTRATED PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN EXPOSING MALAWI'S HARSH POLICY TOWARD JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES. HOWEVER, BANDA, WHO SEEMS TO DELIGHT IN SCORNFULLY REFERRING TO CRITICISM CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 LILONG 00221 131715Z AS "BENEATH CONTEMPT", IS NOT EXPECTED TO CHANGE COURSE. WE SUSPECT THE AGING DICTATOR IS NO LONGER COMPLETELY ON TOP OF THINGS AND IS INCREASINGLY RELIANT ON MUWALO AND GWEDE FOR INFORMATION AND COUNSEL. THUS, WE EXPECT PRESENT "1984" ATMOSPHERE TO CONTINUE. JUST YESTERDAY (MAY 11) U.S. PROFESSOR AT BUNDA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE (AID-FUNDED) WAS DECLARED PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT AND GIVEN 72 HOURS TO LEAVE. AS USUAL, NO REASONS GIVEN. SEPTEL FOLLOWS. STEVENSON CONFIDENTIAL NNN And another one here: https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976LUSAKA01347_b.html UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 LUSAKA 01347 240952Z 17 ACTION AF-08 INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 PM-04 H-02 INR-07 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-05 PA-02 PRS-01 SP-02 SS-15 USIA-15 DHA-02 ORM-02 IO-13 OMB-01 /095 W --------------------- 046547 R 211330Z MAY 76 FM AMEMBASSY LUSAKA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3394 INFO AMEMBASSY LILONGWE AMEMBASSY LONDON UNCLAS LUSAKA 1347 E.O. 11652: N/AO TAGS: PINS SREF MI ZA UK SUBJECT: EXPULSION OF GOAN COMMUNITY FROM MALAWI 1. ZAMBIA PRESS HAS REPORTED FACTS OF MALAWI EXPULSION ITS SMALL GOAN COMMUNITY AS WELL AS WIRE SERVICE ACCOUNTS OF ANGRY UK REACTION TO THIS ACTION. 2. ZAMBIA DAILY MAIL MAY 21 PUBLISHED STATEMENT MADE DAY BEFORE BY HOME AFFAIRS PERM SEC CHILAO TO EFFECT ZAMBIA WILL NOT ACCEPT AS REFUGEES MEMBERS OF MALAWI GOAN COMMUNITY WHO POSSESS BRITISH PASSPORTS. CHILAO POINTED OUT THAT UNLIKE MALAWIAN WATCHTOWER SECT MEMBERS WHO TOOK REFUGE IN ZAMBIA LAST YEAR, GOANS ARE BRITISH CITIZENS WHO ABLE GO TO UK FOLLOWING THEIR EXPULSION FROM MALAWI. CHILAO SAID MALAWI GOANS WOULD BE PERMITTED ENTER ZAMBIA ONLY WITH VALID DOCUMENTS AS BONA FIDE TOURISTS AND BUUSINESS VISISTORS OR TO PERFORM PARTICULAR JOBS FOR WHICH THEY WOULD BE ISSUED WORK PERMITS FOR SPECIFIC PERIOD. 3. EDITORIAL IN SAME EDITION OF DAILY MAIL USES PLIGHT OF MALAWI GOANS AND OTHER EAST AFRICAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES TO REMIND ZAMBIANS OF ASIA ORIGIN TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES FULLY WITH ASPIRATIONS OF THIS COUNTRY AND TO AVOID ACRS, UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 LUSAKA 01347 240952Z SUCH AS HOARDING, CURRENCY SMUGGLING, AND PRICE GOUGING WHICH ONLY FOCUS UNPLEASANT ATTENTION ON THEMSELVES. EDITORIAL WARNS THAT WHILE "A HANDFUL" OF ZAMBIAN ASIAN HAVE GIVEN EVIDENCE OF THEIR COMMITMENT TO ZAMBIA, "HORDS OF THEM" HAVE NOT. EDITORIAL BY IMPLICATION ENDORSES MALAWI GOVT S ACTION. 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