STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
The President of FRELIMO, Comrade Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, v/as assassinated
on the 3rd February, 1969. This brutal death has put a physical end to the life
of a brother, a fighter, and of a man unequaled in stature in the history of
the people of Mozambique, This criminal'"ra'ct, perpetrated by teacherous means,
deprives the Mozambican people and FRELIMO of their leader and enlightened
guide, of the dedicated and courageous militant v/ho throughout his life v/as
the embodiment of the dignity and the fighting spirit of the Mozambican people.
It is still difficult for us to weigh our loss by this untimely death; it is
still difficult to digest the totality of his action in the creation, the
structuring, the fermentation and the elaboration of Mozambican Nationalism.
But the brilliant marks of his bright trajectory among us can be found in every
militant, in every structure, in every political principle, in each part of
the whole which FRELIMO and the Struggle for Liberation are today. In every
portion of the whole he taught us to build, and to overcome our ethnic and
regional differences, our various religious and cultural horizons, in order
to make Mozambique a Nation v/ith FRELIMO its avant-garde ....
Because Eduardo Mondlane knew how to embrace completely his destiny of
Liberator, as a living symbol of unity, the builder of a community; as the
Inheritor of the traditional African culture; the man who fought against
cultural alienation in our country; and principally as the man of our time,
able to put our country on the path of social progress and to establish its
place in the world	
Because his destiny v/as helped by his exceptional gifts of honesty, courage
and frankness, by his enormous capacity, for work and organisation, by his
clear understanding of the nature ,of our.country and our Struggle.
Today, the Struggle for Liberation extends throughout one third of our country;
large regions are free from    colonial domination where the people are
building a new life. The total situation in our country is charcterised by the
continuous extension of the armed struggle to larger and larger regions; an
armed struggle which is a people's v/ar and a prolonged v/ar, an irresistible
stream able to sweep out of our country all the vestiges of the colonialist
and imperialist domination.
President Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was the man of this struggle, assimilating
completely the political and ideological exigencies of the people's war, he
affirmed himself as the ardent defender of the interests of the great masses of
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