APARTHEID   AND   RACISM.   IN   MOZAMBIQUE-
Alliance between.   S. Africa, Portugal and  Rhodesia
Portugal is no new offender against the sentiments of human justice; and
its crimes against the African people of Mozambique and elsewhere have
time and again been brought before the U.N,  Fully substantiated indictments have been laid at Portugal's door with respect to forced labour
and the export of labour from Mozambique on a neo-slave basis.  The
world is also aware of Portugal's obstinate denial of national independence for the people of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea (Bissau).
One of the more recent occasions when Portugal's crimes against the people
rs£  Mozambique were under the scrutiny of the U.N. was in July 1967? when
the U.N. (in collaboration with the government of Zambia) sponsored an
international seminar on "The problems of apartheid, racial discrimination
and colonialism in Southern Africa".  The working paper prepared for the
Secretary General on  the territories under Portuguese domination noted
that UNESCO (like several other specialised U.N. agencies) had been
applying a policy of exclusion towards Portugal, for the following
reason:
"The government of Portugal still pursues in the
African territory under its domination a policy
of colonialism and racial discrimination, depriving
the peoples of those territories of the most basic
rights to education and culture, and thus violating
the fundamental obligations of all member countries
of UNESCO."
That statement which is couched in most moderate terms, represents the
concensus of world opinion.
In November, 1967, FRELIMO appeared before the U.N. Special Committee on
Decolonisation and prefaced thtir remarks by referring to the record of
FRELIMO's representations before various bodies of the U.N.  FRELIMO's
purpose on this occasion is to bring the record up to date on  the question
of Portuguese colonialism and racial domination as it has been manifest
over the past two years.
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