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9.
2. Last January, the Portuguese arrested a traditional chief (regulo) in
Maniamba, Niassa, because they found that he had a FRELIMO card. The Portuguese soldiers tortured him in an attempt to force him to "confess" that
he had given food to FRELIMO guerrillas, and to make him disclose the
location of our military base. Seeing that the usual methods' of torture
produced no results, they buried him up to the neck, leaving only his
head exposed. For -two days the regulo remained buried. On the third day
he said he wanted to talk. The military commander and 'the other soldiers
approached to listen to his "confession". The regulo, using his last
energy, "confessed" that he was in fact a member of ..FRELIMO; that he had .
decided to be a member of that organisation because he was certain that
FRELIMO would liberate Mozambique; that the Portuguese could kill him,
but others would come to carry on the liberation struggle.
The Portuguese, furious, cut off his head.
* ♦ # *
3» In an attempt to turn the people against the guerrillas, the Portuguese
mine the roads around villages, and tell the people that it was FRELIMO
that did it.
* « * «
4. When the Portuguese suspect that any Mozambican among the population
is in contact with the guerrillas, they arrest and torture him. When they
do not kill a victim, they break his ear drums and gouge out his eyes,
abandoning him in the bush and telling him: "Go now to FRELIMO; they
will give you eyes and ears."
* * * *
5. Every pregnant Mozambican woman the Portuguese find in the fighting
zones is., killed by them. They open her womb with a knife and ta.ke out
the foetus.
* * * *
6. During interrogations, the Portuguese use a special instrument with
which they crush the prisoners1 fingers one by one.
COMMUNIQUE m. 61
The plan of the Portuguese military authorities concerning Niassa Province is to immediately place there eight batallions eg soldiers from
Portugal, and to send all African soldiers to the Southern Provinces. The
7,500 soldiers who arrived in Mozambique last March are, as planned to be
used in carrying out this plan.
During the period from the 20th to the 30th of April, the fighters
of a FRELIMO military base south of Vila Cabral made five attacks. Five
policemen and more than 40 Portuguese soldiers were killed. The post of
Catur was damaged. One house in Vila Cabral was destroyed. Several military lorries were destroyed or damaged.
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| Full text | 9. 2. Last January, the Portuguese arrested a traditional chief (regulo) in Maniamba, Niassa, because they found that he had a FRELIMO card. The Portuguese soldiers tortured him in an attempt to force him to "confess" that he had given food to FRELIMO guerrillas, and to make him disclose the location of our military base. Seeing that the usual methods' of torture produced no results, they buried him up to the neck, leaving only his head exposed. For -two days the regulo remained buried. On the third day he said he wanted to talk. The military commander and 'the other soldiers approached to listen to his "confession". The regulo, using his last energy, "confessed" that he was in fact a member of ..FRELIMO; that he had . decided to be a member of that organisation because he was certain that FRELIMO would liberate Mozambique; that the Portuguese could kill him, but others would come to carry on the liberation struggle. The Portuguese, furious, cut off his head. * ♦ # * 3» In an attempt to turn the people against the guerrillas, the Portuguese mine the roads around villages, and tell the people that it was FRELIMO that did it. * « * « 4. When the Portuguese suspect that any Mozambican among the population is in contact with the guerrillas, they arrest and torture him. When they do not kill a victim, they break his ear drums and gouge out his eyes, abandoning him in the bush and telling him: "Go now to FRELIMO; they will give you eyes and ears." * * * * 5. Every pregnant Mozambican woman the Portuguese find in the fighting zones is., killed by them. They open her womb with a knife and ta.ke out the foetus. * * * * 6. During interrogations, the Portuguese use a special instrument with which they crush the prisoners1 fingers one by one. COMMUNIQUE m. 61 The plan of the Portuguese military authorities concerning Niassa Province is to immediately place there eight batallions eg soldiers from Portugal, and to send all African soldiers to the Southern Provinces. The 7,500 soldiers who arrived in Mozambique last March are, as planned to be used in carrying out this plan. During the period from the 20th to the 30th of April, the fighters of a FRELIMO military base south of Vila Cabral made five attacks. Five policemen and more than 40 Portuguese soldiers were killed. The post of Catur was damaged. One house in Vila Cabral was destroyed. Several military lorries were destroyed or damaged. |
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