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FRELIMO MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT CtfYVUAMA^ HA*] UX NIASSA PROVINCES The programme of FRELIMO for 1967 is being duly executed. In the military field, that programme has envisaged the intensification of the attacks and ambushes against the Portuguese forces, aiming at widening the liberated areas. This is happening, in fact. There are nearly daily guerrilla operations extending as far as MECANHELAS, in the extreme South of this Province. The enemy suffers constant defeats - demoralised, ignorant of the terrain, unfamiliarized with the bush, surrounded by a hostile population which reveals to the guerrillas of any move that the enemy takes. Unable to conquer the guorrillas, the Portuguese attack the civilian populations. Recently a new-contingent arrived in the Eastern zone of Niassa Province. The soldiers of this contingent oall themselves " THE CATS, also known as MEN WITH BLACK SCARVES." Their action is mainly directed at the peoples they commit the nost barbarous crimes against the population« They tie up all the Mozambicans they find in the villages - men, women and children indiscriminately ~':dhcL kill them one by one<> with knives, as butchers. At the sane timey' following a general psyohological campaign, they spread pamphlets -in. which . they say that "The Portuguese soldiers do not kill for pleasure, but for necessity". • .-, . . , .. FRELIMO; forces are also, growing, and are able to counter the \ enemy forces. It is true that some members of the people surrendered to the enemy,: led by fear and scared of the brutalities they had witnessed. However, the great majority of tho population continue in FRELIMO and loyal to the Revolution. CABO DELGADO PROVINCE; ' .'* . '.' Two members of FRELIMO Central Committee, comradesLAZARO ;KAVAN- DAME, Provincial Chairman of Cabo Delgado, and JORGE EEBELO, Secretary for Information and Propaganda, have returned fron the interior of Mozambique, v/here th£y had gone on a party mission. For about one month, beginning in mid-February to mid-March, they toured CABO DELGADO Province, organizing public meetings in tho regions where, they pas'sed',. studying the main problems brought by the struggle and by the tasks'1 of national reconstruction. Our revolution is growing. The Portuguese have already lost all their initiatives each time thoy try to novo, our guerrilla forces
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Filename | CENPA-024~06.tiff |
Full text | FRELIMO MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT CtfYVUAMA^ HA*] UX NIASSA PROVINCES The programme of FRELIMO for 1967 is being duly executed. In the military field, that programme has envisaged the intensification of the attacks and ambushes against the Portuguese forces, aiming at widening the liberated areas. This is happening, in fact. There are nearly daily guerrilla operations extending as far as MECANHELAS, in the extreme South of this Province. The enemy suffers constant defeats - demoralised, ignorant of the terrain, unfamiliarized with the bush, surrounded by a hostile population which reveals to the guerrillas of any move that the enemy takes. Unable to conquer the guorrillas, the Portuguese attack the civilian populations. Recently a new-contingent arrived in the Eastern zone of Niassa Province. The soldiers of this contingent oall themselves " THE CATS, also known as MEN WITH BLACK SCARVES." Their action is mainly directed at the peoples they commit the nost barbarous crimes against the population« They tie up all the Mozambicans they find in the villages - men, women and children indiscriminately ~':dhcL kill them one by one<> with knives, as butchers. At the sane timey' following a general psyohological campaign, they spread pamphlets -in. which . they say that "The Portuguese soldiers do not kill for pleasure, but for necessity". • .-, . . , .. FRELIMO; forces are also, growing, and are able to counter the \ enemy forces. It is true that some members of the people surrendered to the enemy,: led by fear and scared of the brutalities they had witnessed. However, the great majority of tho population continue in FRELIMO and loyal to the Revolution. CABO DELGADO PROVINCE; ' .'* . '.' Two members of FRELIMO Central Committee, comradesLAZARO ;KAVAN- DAME, Provincial Chairman of Cabo Delgado, and JORGE EEBELO, Secretary for Information and Propaganda, have returned fron the interior of Mozambique, v/here th£y had gone on a party mission. For about one month, beginning in mid-February to mid-March, they toured CABO DELGADO Province, organizing public meetings in tho regions where, they pas'sed',. studying the main problems brought by the struggle and by the tasks'1 of national reconstruction. Our revolution is growing. The Portuguese have already lost all their initiatives each time thoy try to novo, our guerrilla forces |
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