our men must kill,,,but not fight against the colour of the
enemy, fight against the things lie fights for, systems of
economic and social control.., ,*t: All his efforts to provide
all possible support to the armed struggle reflected a bitter
and serious understanding of the power of the enemy, a clear
understanding of who the enemy is. We now add to all this
our knowledge of the brutal way in which he was murdered.
This murder will be avenged and the enemies of the Mozambican
people must expect our revenge to fall on them and their
sons with inflexible justice,. It was a vain hope that they
nourished if they thought -to discourage us by this barbarous
elimination of one man, even if a great man.  In this they
showed their weakness, their ignorance of the Revolution
which has taught us through the toughest experience how to
make of every apparent setback a new point of attack, how to
use .every momentary retreat as an opportunity for a run and
leap forward, how to find in defeat the means for victory.
We grow stronger from our calamities, and this case is no
different from the other battles,  It is a test for us, perhaps one of harshest, but v/e shall face it with the kind of
determination that the man v/e lost symbolised to us. We
honour him for having given us the example of courage.
And we thank him because he v/as able to speak for us the language
of other men - the language of the diplomats, the language
of the universities; the language of power, Among all these
voices, he ga,ve a voice to Mozambique, and, imposing ailence
on others, he made that voice heard, commanding respect for
our grievances and for our struggle, So we gave him the task
of representing us before the world and of expressing us to
the world. We thank him for having performed this task with
intelligence and abilityc
Thus, we commemorate his life and we mourn his death. We knew,
as he knew, that this could happen, even if it seemed
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