MESSAGE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO
H.E. PRESIDENT JULIUS  K. NYERERE
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
COMRADE,
The Central Committee of FRELIMO, on behalf of the fighters and of the whole
Mozambican people engaged in the armed struggle against Portuguese Colonialism
and Imperialism, extends to you with deep emotion its sincere gratitude for
the solidarity which you, on behalf of TAMJ and AFRO-SHIRAZI, of the Government
and people of Tanzania, manifested on the occasion of the savage murder of our
beloved President and Leader of FRELIMO and of our people, Comrade Dr. Eduardo
Chivambo Mondlane.
The homage paid to the memory of Comrade President Mondlane, the respect thus
demonstrated toward his qualities as a man and a fighter, constitutes for us a
great and profound dedication by Tanzania to the struggle of our people. At
the same time, that homage is also an expression of the revolutionary defense
cf the. supreme values of the Movement for Liberation of the African Peoples.
The death of our President, Comrade Eduardo Mondlane, which is the work of
the colonialist, imperialist and counter-revolutionary forces, constitutes, as
Your Excellency has correctly stressed in the message you addressed to us, a
great loss, not only for FRELIMO and the Mozambican people, but also for the
v/hole of Africa.
By his action, through his clear and lucid intelligence, our President, Comrade
Eduardo Mondlane, was a true son of Mozambique and of Africa.
The revolutionary work v/hich he gave to us as our legacy and which is for us a
great treasure, v/ill continue. The Central Committee of FRELIMO reaffirms the
total engagement of the fighters and of the v/hole Mozambican people to continue
until the end the struggle against Portuguese Colonialism and Imperialism, for
the conquest of National Independence and the installation in our country of a
popular social order, definitively freed from the exploitation of man by man.
United in FRELIMO, the whole Mozambican people from the Rovuma to the Maputo,
will continue the v/ork initiated under the leadership of our dear leader,
Eduardo Mondlane, until the final liberation of Mozambican land.
On behalf of the fighters and the Mozambican people, we send our fraternal
salute to TAMJ and AFRO-SHIRAZI parties, and to the people of Tanzania, and
reaffirm our v/ill to develop the solidarity and friendship between the peoples
of Tanzania and Mozambique, for the common good of our peoples and of all Africa,
The Central Committee of FRELIMO, 21st April, 1969
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