A/HRC/13/31 Namibia Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 0 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure 0 0 3 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 0 Government Nongovernmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 0 3 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) N/A 0 General allegations Yes Government response Yes Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A 378. All outstanding cases were transmitted and the Government acknowledged receipt of two recent ones. A summary of the situation in the country appears in document E/CN.4/2006/56 and Corr.1. Information from the Government 379. The Government transmitted two communications to the Working Group dated 16 June and 24 September 2009, as reported below. General allegations Summary of the allegations 380. Information was submitted by sources to the Working Group concerning obstacles reportedly encountered in the implementation of the Declaration. This information was transmitted to the Government after the Working Group’s eighty-seventh session. 381. The Working Group has been informed that there were reasonable grounds to believe that enforced disappearances have occurred and are still occurring on a massive scale in Namibia. Allegedly, Namibia’s de facto state of emergency was used to create conditions to perpetrate enforced disappearances. 382. It has been reported that between 27 November 1999 and 20 December 1999, a group of 40 men aged between 14 and 56 disappeared soon after Namibian security forces rounded them up in the Kavango Region. Allegedly, Special Field Force members took these men and accused them of being UNITA (Unitão Nacional pela Independência Total de Angola) sympathizers, supporters, collaborators and members. On 12 August 2000, 18 members of the Kxoe indigenous minority disappeared without a trace. Their disappearance came soon after they had been jointly detained in Western Caprivi by members of the 82 GE.09-17704