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people, as unknown heroes.   Therefore, it is not moral reasons
which determine the attitude of the Portuguese when they decide
to give publicity to these arrests;  it is the intention to make
people believe that the liberation movement has been crushed.
In fact, on the l8th of August, the Chief of PIDE in Mozambique      ■ N
declared in an interview given to the "Star" of Johannesburg
that, with the arrests of these 8 terrorists (JOEL GUDUANE,
MATIAS MBOA, LAMEQUE MICHANGULA, DANIEL MAHLAYEYE, JUSTINO SAUL,
ANDRE MANJORO, BOMBA TEMBE and ALEXANDRE MACKEL)j  with the arrest
in January of JOAO REIS, former owner of the newspaper "TRIBUNA",
of the journalist and writer LUIS BERNARDO ONWANA, of the poet
RUI NOOAR BARRETO, of the painter MALANGATANA VALENTE, and of
the poet JOSE CRAVEIRINHAj  with the banning of the Associative
Center of the Negroes of Mozambique5  and with "hundreds of other
arrests made at the same time" - "FRELIMO was completely
annihilated".
Of course the arrest of those nationalists did not cause the
"annihilation" of FRELIMO at all.   On the contrary, these mass
arrests provoked an immense reaction in the whole country;  they
increased the awareness of all the people;  they made thousands
of Mozambicans, until then irresolute, join our movement.
These patriots will be brought to trial.   "In some months a great
political trial will open before the military tribunal of
Mozambique, in which the heads of the 4th Operational Command of
sabotage and subversion of FRELIMO will be judged" - says the
"Diario de Mocambique" of 19 August.  We know what a judgment
made by PIDE is, we know how the political processes are run in . ...
fascist tribunals.  Let us recall Hitler's Germany:  every Jew
brought to court was automatically condemned by the fact of ...
being Jewish.  Also, those Mozambican nationalists are a priori
condemned by.the sole fact that they are nationalists and patriots,
and that they refuse to participate in a genocidal war against
their own people.
However, there is a certain difference between Portugal and Hi.tier's
Germany;  it is that, to a certain extent,- Portugal is sensible
to International.public opinion.   If fact, she depends absolutely
on foreign aid.   And the countries which give her aid can put
pressure on her, forcing her to free the Mozambican political
prisoners - which is the only way to save them, since all
Portuguese tribunals are controlled by PIDE.
This is the appeal we make here.   The Organisation Amnesty International
has already made an appeal in favour of the Mozambican intellectuals.
It is necessary that this movement be widened to all countries.
All Freedom and Justice loving people must raise their voices and