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One official who was involved and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing retribution said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”

An NGO said Tuesday it had filed a legal complaint against TotalEnergies, accusing the French energy multinational of "complicity in war crimes" at its gas site in Mozambique.

"Their complicity is documented here to hold these states accountable. These states must address their role in the genocide and cease their complicity."

That linguistic timidity —our inability to name what’s happening — is itself a form of complicity, and the result of a combination of fear and fecklessness.

Ten former allies of the Bongos are also on trial, accused of complicity in the embezzlement of public funds.