Amadeu Antonio Kiowa
Amadeu Antonio Kiowa (born 12 August 1962 in Quimbele, Angola; died 6 December 1990 in Eberswalde) was a contract worker (Vertragsarbeiter) from Angola. He is one of the first known victims killed in the course of far-right violence in the Federal Republic of Germany following reunification. The perpetrators received lenient verdicts that were widely criticized. The court charged the perpetrators with "battery resulting in death" ("Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge"). They were sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison. Members of civil society and the media have referred to the crime as murder. Life. Kiowa was  born in 1962 in Quimbele, northeast of the Angolan capital Luanda. He was the eldest of twelve children of his mother Helena Alfonso. He trained in Brazil, Portugal and the Soviet Union. On 3 August 1987, Antonio, together with 103 other Angolan contract workers, came to the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He hoped to study aircraft engineering. However, like many Angolan contract workers at the time, he was instead trained as a butcher. Antonio worked in the slaughterhouses and processing plants in the town of Eberswalde to the North-East of Berlin. It was there that he met his girlfriend  with whom he was expecting a child at the time of his death. The couple's situation abruptly changed with the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR. During that time, many foreign contract workers lost their jobs, and their residence status suddenly became unclear as contracts with their original countries were canceled. Death. On the evening of November 24, 1990, neo-Nazi Skinheads from several villages had gathered in the Eberswalde apartment of a local neo-Nazi. In a night club, they banded together with about 50 others with the intention of beating up anyone who looked "different". On the night  of November 24 to 25, 1990, the group ran into Kiowa and two men from Mozambique. Kiowa was brutally beaten by members of the group, and one of the perpetrators jumped on his head with both feet as he was lying on the ground. The 28-year-old Kiowa suffered serious head injuries and fell into a coma from which he never woke up. He died in hospital 11 days later. The two Mozambicans who were attacked with knives by the same group managed to escape alive, albeit with serious injuries.