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All this theatricality ended dramatically. On the fourth day after his
arrival, Captain Coelho Araujo went on a reconnaissance mission. The car in
which he was travelling ( he was not affraid of thefbandits'of FRELIMO, he had
fought three wars, he was in the front car ) touched a mine placed on the road
by our guerrillas, in Nova Coimbra. All that was left of Captain Coelho was
one arm and one leg.
The death of this captain had a tremendously demoralising effect on the
civil population of Vila Cabral. They contacted our militants and asked them
not to mine the road leading to Nampula for some days, because they wanted to
leave Vila Cbral imediately. Our militants accepted their demand, and for one
week they did not mine that road. This attitude is in accordance with one of
the principles of the policy of FRELIMO - to divorce, to separate the Portuguese civil population in Mozambique from the colonialist machine of repression.
With captain Coelho Araujo killed, the men of the red caps lost their
potential dangerousness. They began using normal caps, as all other soldiers
do. They convinced themselves of the necessity of using guns, as the knifes
proved not to be very efficient for their defense against our guns. And they
disappeared as a special group, being integrated into other units.
II - THREE PORTUGUESE POLICE KILLED WITH ARROWS
Traditional weapons continue to play an important role in our struggle.
When our people do not have guns, they fight with knifes and arrows.
In Mocimboa da Praia, for exemple, the Portuguese authorities had sent 3
policemen to the region of Nambude, to investigate the political activities of
the people and to arrest all those who possessed FRELIMO cards.
The people of the region decided to kill them. One day when the 3 policemen had entered a camp to steal cassava, 3 nationalists who were following them
attacked them with arrows  One of  the policemen died on the spot. The two others,
gravely wounded, managed to crawl back to the post, protecting themselves with
their pistols. Both of them died in hospital in Mocimboa da Praia, as a result
of their wounds.
The father of one of the policemen was in Lourenzo Marques. When he heard
about the death of his son, he went to Mocimboa da Praia and tried to organise
a law suit against the authorities, accusing them of having sent his son " to
die as a pig, stealing cassava ".  Of course, the law suit could not be organised because of the opposition of the authorities.
III - THE MURDER OF THE FRELIMO CHAIRMAN OF MTAKANINI
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