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VIZ 0%M(. ISKROXISIS - ••::■ I was born in Seti, CABO DELGADO PROVINCE 23 years ago. I come from a family of poor peasants; there were 8 children. My name is Miguel Ambiosio Cunamashuvi. We were so poor that my father was exempted from paying tax. Only my eldest brother paid 115*0 escudos a year. He had to work on other peoples' land and give up what little he produced. This meant that at home we had to sell what little we produced to pay the tax. We worked with a hoe; the fields were very small and v/e were paid very little for what we sold. We had to sell a great deal to have the money to pay the tax. We sold to traders. We sold them peanuts at 1.0 escudo per kg. but they sold them at 5*0 escudos a kg. My father was wounded and arrested in i960 at the massacre of Mueda. He was in prison at Porto Amelia for two years, from June, i960, to September, I962. He had not been tried or sentenced but just imprisoned and like that he stayed in prison for two years. I have fought in ZAMBEZIA and NIASJA far from my own region and my own tribe. I have fought in the region of the Chuabos and the Lomues. I need to say that, because the Portuguese lie and say that we are not united. The Chuabos, the Nyanjas and the Lo-nues received me even more warmly than if I had been from their own region. In Western Niassa, for example, I came across Comrade Panguene and although he is from the South, you couldn't distinguish him from the people of the region; he was like a son of the region. The people understand that we are all Mozambicans, equal sons of the same country. The people are united and help us. Otherwise, for instance we couldn't go into enemy areas; it is the people who give us all our information about their movements, their strength and their position. Also when we start working in an area where we have no food because we have not yet had the opportunity to grow any, the people supply us and feed us. We also help the people. Until militias have been formed in a region we protect the people in their fields against the action and reprisals of the colonialists; we organise new villages when we have to evacuate the people from a zone because of the war; we protect them against the enemy. When the Portuguese take a village by surprise they kill the people, they hang them and massacre them. I saw this for instance in May I965 at Cunua, Tacuane Region. The people were harvesting when the soldiers surprised them. Then they fired on the people and a woman was wounded in the right thigh. We treated her and then went to look for other casualties. We found the body of a child aged 5 or 6; they had cut his head off with a knife. We buried the^ child. We have never done that. We have never thought of murdering Portuguese civilians; we don't terrorise the Portuguese civilian population because we know who we are fighting and why. For that reason we have never planned an attack against Portuguese civilians. If we wanted to we could; the civilians live near us| we have every opportunity, but our objective, our target is the army, the police, the administration. -19-
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Title | CENPA-036~21 |
Filename | CENPA-036~21.tiff |
Full text | VIZ 0%M(. ISKROXISIS - ••::■ I was born in Seti, CABO DELGADO PROVINCE 23 years ago. I come from a family of poor peasants; there were 8 children. My name is Miguel Ambiosio Cunamashuvi. We were so poor that my father was exempted from paying tax. Only my eldest brother paid 115*0 escudos a year. He had to work on other peoples' land and give up what little he produced. This meant that at home we had to sell what little we produced to pay the tax. We worked with a hoe; the fields were very small and v/e were paid very little for what we sold. We had to sell a great deal to have the money to pay the tax. We sold to traders. We sold them peanuts at 1.0 escudo per kg. but they sold them at 5*0 escudos a kg. My father was wounded and arrested in i960 at the massacre of Mueda. He was in prison at Porto Amelia for two years, from June, i960, to September, I962. He had not been tried or sentenced but just imprisoned and like that he stayed in prison for two years. I have fought in ZAMBEZIA and NIASJA far from my own region and my own tribe. I have fought in the region of the Chuabos and the Lomues. I need to say that, because the Portuguese lie and say that we are not united. The Chuabos, the Nyanjas and the Lo-nues received me even more warmly than if I had been from their own region. In Western Niassa, for example, I came across Comrade Panguene and although he is from the South, you couldn't distinguish him from the people of the region; he was like a son of the region. The people understand that we are all Mozambicans, equal sons of the same country. The people are united and help us. Otherwise, for instance we couldn't go into enemy areas; it is the people who give us all our information about their movements, their strength and their position. Also when we start working in an area where we have no food because we have not yet had the opportunity to grow any, the people supply us and feed us. We also help the people. Until militias have been formed in a region we protect the people in their fields against the action and reprisals of the colonialists; we organise new villages when we have to evacuate the people from a zone because of the war; we protect them against the enemy. When the Portuguese take a village by surprise they kill the people, they hang them and massacre them. I saw this for instance in May I965 at Cunua, Tacuane Region. The people were harvesting when the soldiers surprised them. Then they fired on the people and a woman was wounded in the right thigh. We treated her and then went to look for other casualties. We found the body of a child aged 5 or 6; they had cut his head off with a knife. We buried the^ child. We have never done that. We have never thought of murdering Portuguese civilians; we don't terrorise the Portuguese civilian population because we know who we are fighting and why. For that reason we have never planned an attack against Portuguese civilians. If we wanted to we could; the civilians live near us| we have every opportunity, but our objective, our target is the army, the police, the administration. -19- |
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