us as long as we have the support of tho people. Consequently, Li
since October they launched an intensive campaign aimed at isolating the guerrillas from the people by threatening the population
with massacres if they callaborated with FRELIMO; they seduce them
with promises of "better life" if they follow the Portuguese authorities. This became one of the main preoccupations of the Portuguese, to the extent that today they often avoid combats, preferring to distribute pamphlets to the people. This happened, for
example, in Micapalo, Niassa Province, on the 11th of November0,
strong Portuguoso patrols met our troops but refused to fight, de
deviated and went to a zone where the people pass, leaving there
a large number of pamphlets. In these pamphlets the Portuguese
say that "the white people and the black people are brothers, but
FRELIMO wants to destroy that brotherhood" and that "the Makonde
tribe is an enemy of the Macua tribe and therefore the Macua tribe
must join the Portuguese to fight the Makondes". Our people, however, know the Portuguese propaganda. They come to us and show us
the pamphlets, they themselves denounce the divisionist manouevres
of the enemy and reafirm their dedication to the struggle for
national liberation.
DECEMBER 28th
Reinforcements are constantly being sent to Niassa and to
Cabo Delgado Provinces, from the other provinces of Mozambique.
This allows the Portuguese to concentrate a large number of troops;
they never send a group of less than 100 on patrol. However our
our forces are also growing. It is precisely because of our strength
that the Portuguese are forced to send reinforcements. But the more
troops the enemy sends, the more losses he suffers.
3ANUARY IOth 1967
In fcba coufcse bf tlpe past .w&e^a .raore than-14 Mozaitibiccn -
Africao sbldieirs who ifiere in th§ Portuguese army deserted and joined FRELIMO forces in Cabo Delgado province. They related untold
sufferings of the population in the "strategic hamlets" who do not
get any food from the Portuguese (food is for the Portuguese-
soldiers - and even for these it is not enough ) In these "strategic hamle ts" people are badly mistreated by the colonialist
soldiers uho consider all black people responsible for their
defeats aid sufferinqs0