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The PIDE Inspector refused my statement and made their own
through the information that they were provided by their notorious
spies.  And forced me to sign this statement critical ordeal of four
days and nights standing within a circle with an electric globe on
my head, and in very two hours they used to come and beat me on the
hands v/ith a palmatoria and rubber rushes, burning my beard with
matches, using my nostrils as an ash tray, burning my ears with
cigars, until I signed the statement.  Since my arrest was planned
on the 3rd February 1962, when Wellensky visited Mozambique (Lourenco
Marques) and returned to Salisbury on the 5th February, and I was
arrested on the 9th February.
I proved this through a letter which he wrote to the Military
Court dated 8th January 1963;  v/hich is up to now in my statement
in Lourenco Marques.  And I remember in 1961, he visited Salazar in
Portugal to sign a political and military agreements as they had the
ai'ms to join Mozambique, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Angola, Katanga and
South Africa after his plan of declaring Independence of the Federation out of the Commonwealth, for which he has failed.  His doon was
a complete failure of imperialist domination in the south of Zambezi*
Due to the Salazar-Wellensky agreement, PIDE has all the powers
of arresting anybody from Mozambique in Southern Rhodesia because of
this agreement.
The Federation Government was a colonial instrument to perpetuate
rule by 305,000 (three hundred five thousand) white dominating the
population of about 11,000,000 (eleven million) Africans of Central
Africa.
The way in v/hich I was arrested in Southern Rhodesia before
being taken to Mozambique, and again after release from Lourenco
Marques, it showed that there is a close cooperation between the two
imperialist governments.  hS such we are determined to fight both
governments with the same determination.
IJI.  The Trial
On the 23rd October 1962, eight months after my ariest, I
appeared before the Military Tribuner for preparatory examination
together with JaIME RIVAZ SIGaUKE and ALF0RDS AEMnRGO.  We were
charged for contravening Section 143 and 149 of the Penal Code of
the oppressive Portuguese Laws.
Due to the Portuguese Law of Imprisonment without trial we
were judged on the 9th August 1963, after a year and a half.
The Military Tribuner where we appeared was composed of one
civilian judge, a president of the Tribuner who is a Military
Commandant with his Assistant, one Public Prosecutor (Promotor de
Justica) and Secretary of the Court and a Military Lawyer.
On my side with Mr. ALFREDO aM«.RG0 we had one lawyer Mr*
ALMEIDA SANTOS.  For Sigauke was Mr. Fernandes.
Mr. AMRaGO and I were discharged, and SIGaUKE was given two
years imprisonment and sixteen years without political rights.
(This was formal because normally an African never had political
rights in Mozambique.)
IV.  In the Prison
Political prisoners are badly treated.  They are cruelly beaten.
Some of the political prisoners die, as SHEIKH HaNZa BIN ISSA,
arrested in Mocimboa da Praia in January 1962.
Others have mental troubles, as:
- KENDa KLIFF0RD
- aNTONIO SIK0LA
- BRINGUE
- JOHN B.1NDA