In the months before opposition ​activist and rapper Vigario Luis Balanta was beaten to death and his body dumped in a field outside the capital of Guinea-Bissau, his wife begged him to keep a low profile. Balanta’s ‌killing in March sent shockwaves through the political movement he founded in the West African country, which has been under military rule since late November. The new leaders of his movement have gone underground as they seek ways to end the cycle of coups and violence since independence from Portugal in 1974. “I was constantly asking him to lie low, so it wouldn’t reach this point that it reached,” his wife Dulce told Reuters during an interview. The couple had two children together, aged 8 and 11. On the night of his ​killing, Dulce thought her husband was hiding with friends – as he often did after public events such as the lengthy radio interview he had given days earlier – or that he had been arrested. But ​the next morning, she grew alarmed after her calls went unanswered.

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