Mozambican activists and political analysts say the police had "concrete targets to shoot" during the brutal repression of the peaceful marches in honor of rapper Azagaia on Saturday, 18, and are surprised at the "criminal silence" of the justice system 48 hours later.

The police wounded civilians at the peaceful demonstration, which was turned violent by their "brutal and criminal actions", which subjected Mozambique to a "gratuitous regression" in terms of democracy and to becoming a country with an "atmosphere of fear and terror", social activist Fátima Mimbire told VOA.

"From the way the police acted, they wanted to kill specific people. There are (special police) officers who fired at specific targets," continues Mimbire, for whom "losing his eye and being hit by a bullet "was no accident.

The activist, whose car was vandalized during the demonstration, asks "why this brutal action by the police, what is the danger to unprotected people, where did this order come from and why did it come, for what purpose did it come"

Fátima Mimbire insists that Mozambique's Attorney General's Office (PGR) continues to remain "criminally" and "complicitly" silent, two days after the violence against civilians.

Journalist Erik Charas, on the other hand, dismisses the "conspiracy movement" thesis defended in the ruling party's political circles to justify the aggression against the people.

"There are conspiracy theories being put together and invented to justify the brutality with which a group of young people were received," Charas argues, so that "the attackers continue to have a good image and support from the international community".

The journalist, who escaped nine detention attempts while covering the demonstration, believes that the "March 18 movement" served to remove the "disguise of democracy" and demonstrated a "governance of dictatorship and tyranny" in Mozambique.

Mozambican political analyst Samuel Simango also dismisses the theory of conspiracy during the movement, which, he says, arises from "a collective frustration" and "social unsustainability" in Mozambique, with Azagaia's messages having been "the fuel for this national collective consciousness".

"The brutal actions of the police show, among other things, that the regime hasn't been able to read the signs of the times," says the university professor.

Simango emphasized that by singing "Povo no Poder" (People in Power), the most notable song by the rapper Azagaia, "Mozambican society has shown that it is saturated, for lack of a solution to the country's problems".

The social contrasts in Mozambique, he said, should already have led the Ombudsman and the PGR to act to "restore social truth, restore justice and heal the wounds opened by the government's behavior through the police forces", at the risk of the next demonstrations being violent and resulting in ungovernability.

The police used tear gas, rubber bullets and dogs to disperse the demonstrations, which had official authorization but were repressed in several Mozambican cities.

Celso Correia, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and member of the Central Committee of Frelimo, the ruling party, said in Nampula that it was necessary to "let the institutions work and investigate" the degree of violence that had taken place, reiterating that the party "is against all types of violence".

Several police officers are criticizing on social media the actions of the corporation itself against civilians, suggesting dissatisfaction with the political command of the police.