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Ondó Edú was officially reported to have committed suicide on 5 March 1969, although it is reported that Edú was actually executed soon after his return on trumped-up charges of having been planning a coup. [7] Robbie Williams, 49, claims he's going through 'manopause' as he battles 'thinning hair' and a 'reduced sex drive' due to 'years of partying' He talks about his older brother, Teo, who was sent to Cuba by his father to be in the care of Fidel Castro.

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She said: ' Although North and South say they want unification, they don't actually know each other as people. If we want unification, we have to bury prejudice.'

Situación jurídica de las propiedades españolas en Guinea". El País. 24 August 1979 . Retrieved 8 February 2017. The state prosecutor requested that Macías Nguema receive a death sentence, five others receive 30-year sentences, three others receive a year in prison, and two be sentenced to time served. Macías Nguema's defense counsel countered that the other co-defendants were responsible for specific crimes, and asked for acquittal. Macías Nguema himself delivered a statement to the court outlining what he viewed as the extensive good deeds he had performed for the country. At noon on 29 September 1979, the Tribunal delivered its sentences, which were more severe than what the prosecution had requested. Macías Nguema and six of his co-defendants were sentenced to death and the confiscation of their property; Nguema being sentenced to death "101 times". [94] Two defendants were sentenced to fourteen years in prison each, and two others to four years each. [63]

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Max Liniger-Goumaz (1988) Small is Not Always Beautiful: The Story of Equatorial Guinea, C. Hurst and Company, ISBN 1-85065-023-3. p.64 When he returned to the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, then headed by Kim Il-sung's nephew, he sneaked out one night and walked for hours to find his sister, who lived in the center of the city. She said: ' At that time no one there spoke English and I was lost. I saw a white guy passing and I asked him if he spoke English but when he started talking he had an American accent,' Macias said. Have YOU fallen prey to this toxic dating trend? Relationship experts lay bare the pitfalls of 'spider-webbing' - as they reveal how you can avoid becoming a victim of these VERY unhappy romancesBy 1979, Macías Nguema's government had garnered condemnation from the United Nations and European Commission. That summer, Macías Nguema organised the execution of several members of his own family, leading several members of his inner circle to fear that he was no longer acting rationally. On 3 August 1979 he was overthrown by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, whose brother was among those murdered by the President. [17] [91] Obiang achieved his coup mostly with the help of his cousins with whom he had previously attended a Spanish military academy together and who now headed the military. As Macías Nguema was still at his palace, isolated from the rest of the country due to his fear of being overthrown, the coup met no organized opposition. [91] Núñez Torres, Sara (2012). La Tierra de Bisila (Memorias de Fernando Póo 1958-1969) (Bioko - Guinea Ecuatorial). Lulu.com. p.317. ISBN 9781446648766 . Retrieved 12 March 2017. Foreseeing his exile and later execution, Franciso Macías sent his three children to North Korea to live and receive an education. Monique Macías, along with her sister and brother, attended Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea, where they learned to shoot Kalashnikov rifles and participated in daily physical drills that involved running and climbing. Mereth, Martin (2011). África. Intermón Oxfam Editorial. ISBN 9788484525950 . Retrieved 4 April 2017.

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As a teenager she began to realize that she was following rules that she had been “mechanically trained” to follow. Equatorial Guinea's Christmas Eve executions' ". Executed Today. 24 December 2017. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023 . Retrieved 8 January 2022. She recalls rumours in 1989 of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement and subsequent massacre in Beijing reaching the hallways of North Korean colleges. Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. 2015. p.405. ISBN 9781598846669 . Retrieved 17 April 2017. I have found that Western media normally just focuses on nuclear issues, politics or human rights. Together, all this makes people think that North Korea is an evil country and that its people are simply robots….But having lived there, I am proof that all of these things are not always true.”Nerín, Gustau (2016). "FRANCISCO MACÍAS: NUEVO ESTADO, NUEVO RITUAL" (PDF). ÉNDOXA. National University of Distance Education (37): 149–168 . Retrieved 22 February 2017. She said: 'The first week, all of us were so hungry after shooting, climbing and running every day that we ate our weekly rations in three days and, for the other four days, we were hungry. On December 31, she received a basket of food at her boarding school and her classmates looked at her with envy when she took her fruits, soft drinks and sweets from her. The school traditionally took only boys but Ms Macias said a class was created for girls so she and her sister could study together. Formerly an all-boys school, the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School made a new class for Macías and her sister as an exception. The special treatment often led other students to ask: who is Monique Macías and why do she and her siblings deserve preferential treatment? Macías was not too young to recognize the special treatment that she and her siblings received in Pyongyang:

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Born in EG, Monica was sent to Pyongyang at age of 6 to study, where she graduated as a textile engineer. After many years of living in societies with different cultures and political ideologies, she had decided to put her empirical knowledge into academic context and received her Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from SOAS, London, UK. In 2013, Monica’s biography “I’m Monica from Pyongyang” was published in Korean in Seoul, South Korea and received excellent critique from local literature. The book describes Monica Macias’ life journey from her childhood, adolescence and a part of her adulthood in Pyongyang, North Korea to the time that she spent in the UK.Calls to boycott Net-a-Porter and MyTheresa after luxury fashion platforms axe Israeli fashion designer Dodo Bar Or for 'posting video comparing Hamas to ISIS' Gloria Nistal Rosique. "EL CASO DEL ESPAÑOL EN GUINEA ECUATORIAL" (PDF): 74 . Retrieved 24 July 2016. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Alejandro Artucio. The Trial of Macías in Equatorial Guinea. International Commission of Jurists. p.31.