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our objective, to make each Mozambican a militant.
The Portuguese and their allies continue saying that the revolution is made by
"terrorists coming from the exterior".  It is true that there' are terrorists
in Mozambique; and that those terrorists came from the exterior. In fact,
they came from a very far region (Portugal) with only the aim of exploiting
the riches of cur land. In order to achieve this, they oppress our people ,
terrorising them, killing and torturing men, women and children indiscriminately.
Concerning terrorism, there is a fundamental difference between the attitude
of  the FRELIMO militants and the Portuguese soldiers. Our militants kill
because they are forced to kill, this being the only way the Portuguese have
left for us to win our independence. In any case, FRELIMO militants attack
only Portuguese soldiers and armed civilians; and there has never been a
single case of a Portuguese - civilian or military - being tortured.
On the contrary, the Portuguese act barbarically, as true criminals, choosing
most brutal forms of torture.  Young Portuguese soldiers 20 years old, traditionally christian, who came to Mozambique to " defend the last remnants of
Christian Civilisation in Africa ", confide to their colleagues with groat
naturalness of having violated African girls with a knife, of having cut off
the ears of the prisoners, exhibiting them as a trophy, of having blinded
prisoners with burning cigarettes.
This happened in Algiers, in the last phase of the struggle against the French
colonialists, this happens again now with the Americans in Vietnam, and is
also happening in Mozambique.
There is a direct relationship between the increase of colonialist terrorism
and the success of the struggle for Liberation. Today, the Portuguese soldiers
in Mozambique know that their defeat is inevitable; they know that they fight
for a lost case. They know that most of them will not return to their country
but will fall under the bullets of the Mozambican patriots.•And they revenge
themselves against those they can catch, torturing the people they consider
"responsible" for their situations the people who fight for their liberation.
Those manifestations of terrorism, however, have no other effect than to make
our people more conscious of the necessity of finally expelling the Portuguese colonialists.  Already whole groups have abandoned their villages,
seeking refuge in the semi-liberated areas, where they live under the protection of our guerrillas.  Here they can taste Liberty.  The Portuguese
administrative officers charged with collecting taxes in Niassa Province were
asked by the people the reason why they did not collect taxes also in the
regions of LALALA, MANDAMBUZI, MCODESSE and others. The answer given by one
of the officwrs was significant. The answer was: M liie cannot collect taxes
there. FRELIMO is there. There is already free Mozambique."
In those areas the work of National reconstruction is being intensified. Die
have already created a new political and administrative structure. Schools
are working - although in difficult conditions, due to the lack of materisi
and teachers (often, the teachers are the few children who under the colons-
regime had the priviledge of studying standart II or III and who teach the