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In this Monday Sept. 3, 2012 file photo Eswatini's King, Mswati III, front, dances during a Reed Dance in Mbabane
AT LEAST 15 people were shot dead in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, today as the government continued its brutal crackdown on the growing movement for democracy.
Security services have been accused of cutting the internet and using the blackout to raid homes and kill people in the hope that their actions will not be detected.
Leading figures from the Democracy Now movement are the main targets of the regime of King Msawti III, the last absolutist monarch in Africa.
The civilian toll climbs past 1,000 as women, children and families are struck in their homes, schools and public spaces – a stark illustration of the human cost of war. AZAR SEPEHR emphasises that the future of Iran is solely determinable by the people of that country and them alone
