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MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT
Ccn^M^^^^^t
No 78
The rainy season is beginning in Mozambique. During the past
months, the Portuguese tried to take advantage of the dry season
as they had already done in 1964 and 1965. They burnt wide tracts
of terrain, thus aiming at avoiding ambushes and depriving
guerrillas of their natural hide-out in the vegetation.
However, as it had already happened, in 1964 and 1965, the
support given by the people to our guerrillas frustrated.the
plans of the Portuguese. The people hide the guerrillas, give
them food and information on the movements of the enemy.
This year, the 3rd year of armed struggle in Mozambique, the
Portuguese became aware of the fact that they will never be able
to conquer us as long as we shall have the support of the people.
Consequently, since October they launched an intensive campaign
aimed at isolating the guerrillas from the people by threatening
the population with massacres if they collaborate with Prelimoj
they seduce them with promises of "better life," if they follow
the Portuguese authorities. This became one of the main
preoccupations of the Portugueses to the extent that today they
often avoid combats, preferring to distribute pamphlets to the
people. This happened, for example, in MICAPALO, Niassa Province,,
on the 11th Novembers strong Portuguese patrols met our troops
but refused to fight, deviated and went to a zone where the
people used to pass, leaving there many pamphlets. In those
pamphlets, the Portuguese tell that "the white people and the
black people are brothers, but Prelimo wants to destroy that
brotherhood," that "the Makonde tribe is an enemy of the Macua
tribe, and therefore tho Macuas must join the Portuguese to
fight the Makondes."
Our people, however, are aware of Portuguese propaganda. They
come to us and show us the pamphlets, they themselves denounce
the divisionist manoeuvres of the enemy, and reaffirm their ■
dedication to the struggle for national liberation. In every
village in the fighting zones, there are mothers who have sent
their sons and daughters to fight? there are women whose
husbands , from the battlefront, send to them messages of
courage; there are children who tell proudly to their friends
how many ambushes and attacks against the Portuguese their,
fathers have participated in and the number of enemy soldiers
they had already killed.
The guerrillas and - the people are inseparable. They will
defeat the Portuguese colonialists
NIASSA PROVINCE.
7th September, 1966s A group of 30 Portuguese soldiers left../2
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| Full text | 1 MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT Ccn^M^^^^^t No 78 The rainy season is beginning in Mozambique. During the past months, the Portuguese tried to take advantage of the dry season as they had already done in 1964 and 1965. They burnt wide tracts of terrain, thus aiming at avoiding ambushes and depriving guerrillas of their natural hide-out in the vegetation. However, as it had already happened, in 1964 and 1965, the support given by the people to our guerrillas frustrated.the plans of the Portuguese. The people hide the guerrillas, give them food and information on the movements of the enemy. This year, the 3rd year of armed struggle in Mozambique, the Portuguese became aware of the fact that they will never be able to conquer us as long as we shall have the support of the people. Consequently, since October they launched an intensive campaign aimed at isolating the guerrillas from the people by threatening the population with massacres if they collaborate with Prelimoj they seduce them with promises of "better life," if they follow the Portuguese authorities. This became one of the main preoccupations of the Portugueses to the extent that today they often avoid combats, preferring to distribute pamphlets to the people. This happened, for example, in MICAPALO, Niassa Province,, on the 11th Novembers strong Portuguese patrols met our troops but refused to fight, deviated and went to a zone where the people used to pass, leaving there many pamphlets. In those pamphlets, the Portuguese tell that "the white people and the black people are brothers, but Prelimo wants to destroy that brotherhood," that "the Makonde tribe is an enemy of the Macua tribe, and therefore tho Macuas must join the Portuguese to fight the Makondes." Our people, however, are aware of Portuguese propaganda. They come to us and show us the pamphlets, they themselves denounce the divisionist manoeuvres of the enemy, and reaffirm their ■ dedication to the struggle for national liberation. In every village in the fighting zones, there are mothers who have sent their sons and daughters to fight? there are women whose husbands , from the battlefront, send to them messages of courage; there are children who tell proudly to their friends how many ambushes and attacks against the Portuguese their, fathers have participated in and the number of enemy soldiers they had already killed. The guerrillas and - the people are inseparable. They will defeat the Portuguese colonialists NIASSA PROVINCE. 7th September, 1966s A group of 30 Portuguese soldiers left../2 |
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