Dictator found in jungle

Press, 21 August 1979, Page 9

Dictator found in jungle

NZPA-Reuter Madrid Francisco Macias Nguema, who held Equatorial Guinea in an 11-year grip of terror, has been captured in the jungle, alone, unarmed, and clutching a small suitcase. The ousted dictator, spotted by a peasant woman *? he emerged from a roadside ditch near his native village, issued a last threat before he was captured by troops of the military council that overthrew him two weeks ago. “You will come under my black magic powers,” he, told the woman, according! to a correspondent of Spain's “Diario 16” news-! Paper in the capital, Malabo. I Yesterday, he was on his way under armed guard for a military trial in the city of Bata, the correspondent reported. Spanish radio said earlier that he would be tried in Malabo. Macias, whose arrest was greeted with wild scenes of joy in Malabo, according to Spanish radio, is accused of forcing into exile one third of the small West African republic’s population and of killing 40,000 political deThe country’s new leader, Lieutenant-Colonel Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mhazago who led the coup against his uncle, told the Madrid newspaper three days ago that, on his capture, the former dictator would be put into a PsycnSatric hospital before; standing trial.