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MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT
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The rainy soason is beginning in Mozambique. During the past months,
the Portuguese tried to take advantage of the dry season as they had al» -
ready done in 1964 and 1965* They burnt wide tracts of terrain, thus aiming
at avoiding ambushes and depriving guerrillas of their natural hide-out in
the vegetation.
However, as it had already happened in 1964 and 1965, the support g±w
von by the people to our guerrillas frustrated the plans of the Portuguese.
The people hide tho guerrillas, give then food and information on the movements of the enemy.
This year, the 5*xl year of armed struggle in Mozambique, the Portuguese becane aware of the fact that thoy will never be able to conquer us as
long as we shall have the support of the people. Consequently, since Oct£
ober they launched an intensive campaign ained at isolating the guerrillas
from the people by threatening tho population with massacres if they collaborate v/ith Frolino$ they seduco then with promises of "better life1,1 if
they follow the Portuguese authorities. This becane one of the main preoccupations of the Portuguese; to the extent that today thoy often avoid con-
bats, preferring to distribute panphlets to the people. This happened, for
exanple, in MICAPALO, Niassa Province, on the 11th Novembers strong Portuguese patrols net our troops but refused to fight, deviated and wont to a
zone v/here the people used to pass, leaving there many panphlets. In those
panphlets, the Portuguese tell that "the white people and the black people
are brothers, but Frelino wants to destroy that brotherhood," that tho Mak-
ondo tribe is an enemy of the Macua tribe, and therefore the Macuas nust
join the Portuguese to fight the Makondes."
.. Our people, however, are aware of Portuguese propaganda. They cone
to us and show us the panphlets, they themselves denounce the divisio-
nist manoeuvres of the enemy, and reaffirm their dedication to the
struggle for national liberation. In every village in the fighting zones,
there are mothers who have sent their sons oaiO.  daughters to fight 5 there
are women whose husbands, from the battlefront, send to then messages of
courage; there aro children who tell proudly to thoir friends how nany
ambushes.and attacks against the Portuguese their fathers have participated in and the number of enemy soldiers they had already killed.
The guerrillas and the people are inseparable. They will defeat
the Portuguese colonialists.
NIASSA PROVINCE
1.. 7th September, 1966s A group of 30 Portuguese soldiers left Vila Cabral to MATIPA. commissioned to capture tho people v/ho were escaping...
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