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had only one greneade he preferred to confront the whole
enemy detachment rather than to run away into the bush as if
he were a thief. He was in his own country and he had to
defend it. It was the others who were the thieves, the bandits.
To run away would have been shameful and a treason to the
country which had given him birth.
The troop of Portuguese bandits were busy destroying the
crops. Our comrade was camouflaged, waiting for the enemies to
pass by hi .. When the Commander v/as passing, that Mozambican
peasant threw the grenade. The Commander and two soldiers
were killed.
Who v/as that Commander? He was a Portuguese officer, a
lieutenant. He had left his country, Portugal, to come and
die in a shamba, in a distant country, far away from his
family and friends, without any of his relatives to stand by
him at his death. What v/as it that he came to do here? Did he
not know that this was not his country? He was in Mozambique,
not in Portugal, in Africa, not in Europe. He was killed by a
simple man of the people, without training, without arms, -
he, an officer, well trained, well armed, he, a Commander!-
He died because he was a bandit, because he had come to rob
and oppress the people, he had come to murder and plunder.
This is the fate which all those will suffer, who come to
practise injustice against the people. V/e shall fight against
them. We shall kill them or expel them from Mozambique.
"And the people were forced to fight and started fighting.
They started fighting not because they like shedding blood,
not because they like war, but because they were faced with
the alternatives of slavery or death. They were faced with a
situation in which they had to pay for freedom and justice
with their own blood."
- FIDEL CASTRO
The information services of the Portuguese armed forces
announce that the following have been killed in action in
Mozambique; Sublieutenant Jose Felicio Rodrigues;paratroops
66/64 Manuel Carrilho Alves Pereira, 42/65 Francisco Fernando
Carvalho Pinto Paria, and 33/66 Mario Jesus Vila Nova Maria.
Sipfa July 24th 1967.
-13-
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| Title | CENPA-025~15 |
| Filename | CENPA-025~15.tiff |
| Full text | had only one greneade he preferred to confront the whole enemy detachment rather than to run away into the bush as if he were a thief. He was in his own country and he had to defend it. It was the others who were the thieves, the bandits. To run away would have been shameful and a treason to the country which had given him birth. The troop of Portuguese bandits were busy destroying the crops. Our comrade was camouflaged, waiting for the enemies to pass by hi .. When the Commander v/as passing, that Mozambican peasant threw the grenade. The Commander and two soldiers were killed. Who v/as that Commander? He was a Portuguese officer, a lieutenant. He had left his country, Portugal, to come and die in a shamba, in a distant country, far away from his family and friends, without any of his relatives to stand by him at his death. What v/as it that he came to do here? Did he not know that this was not his country? He was in Mozambique, not in Portugal, in Africa, not in Europe. He was killed by a simple man of the people, without training, without arms, - he, an officer, well trained, well armed, he, a Commander!- He died because he was a bandit, because he had come to rob and oppress the people, he had come to murder and plunder. This is the fate which all those will suffer, who come to practise injustice against the people. V/e shall fight against them. We shall kill them or expel them from Mozambique. "And the people were forced to fight and started fighting. They started fighting not because they like shedding blood, not because they like war, but because they were faced with the alternatives of slavery or death. They were faced with a situation in which they had to pay for freedom and justice with their own blood." - FIDEL CASTRO The information services of the Portuguese armed forces announce that the following have been killed in action in Mozambique; Sublieutenant Jose Felicio Rodrigues;paratroops 66/64 Manuel Carrilho Alves Pereira, 42/65 Francisco Fernando Carvalho Pinto Paria, and 33/66 Mario Jesus Vila Nova Maria. Sipfa July 24th 1967. -13- |
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