thing in her power to make sanctions a failure and the
Smith dictatorship a success.
While Britain pretends to be blind to the Smith-Sala-
zar connection, the real enemies of both these dictatorships are not. We in FRELIMO are well aware that our
struggle against Salazar is closely linked with the struggle against Smith and that a blow against one dictator is
a blow against the other. While the supposed champions
of Western democracy hedge, and retreat and appease the
growing forces of fascism in Southern Africa, the people
of Africa are fighting and will continue to fight.
S  T A T E M E N T
The colonial-fascist government of Ian Smith continues
its heinous crimes. This does not come as a surprise to us
- our experience with Portuguese colonialism has taught us
that the enemies of the people always commit criminal acts
in order to deter the people's march to freedom.
It is clear that the pious words of the British government are nothing but attempts to deceive public opinion,
which is well aware of British connivance with the Smith
gangsters who seized power in Salisbury. This is also normal
in view of the common racial and ethnic nature of the British and Rhodesians. It would in fact be surprising, to see
British imperialism liberate the people of Zimbabwe, whom
it exploits, from the yoke of the white racist government
of Ian Smith, which it has created and which it practically
supports.
The people of Mozambique and FRELIMO condemn the murder
of the African patriots by the colonial-fascist Rhodesian
regime, and consider these crimes as being consistent with
the behaviour of the enemies of the people. The use of murder is Smith's answer to the development of the national
conscience and of the mobilisation of the people of Zimbabwe.
Sooner or later Smith, as already Vorster and Salazar, will
start assassinating the populations of whole villages, to
bomb and destroy people's crops, hospitals, schools. Sooner
or later the colonial fascist Rhodesian regime will change
from murders through the courts, resorting to naked wide-
scale massacres of old people, children and women. This
genocidal escalation will increase in proportion to the
growth and strengthening of the people's forces.
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