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- 6 -
2. —. THE PUPPETS
In the zones still imder Portuguese control but where PRELIMO
is developing an intensive political activity, the Portuguese are . ./••-
trying to find among the local people those who can be easily bought
or deceived. These persons are principally local chiefs and small
proprietors.
They say .to those persons that PRELIMO is fighting to 'steal ;.
their possessions and privilagos, that PRELIMO members are bandits.
At the same time, they tell them that the Portuguese Government can
help them to defend their goods and priviladges, if they accept to
indicate, among the people, the members or organisers of FRELIMO,
and to inform the authorities of the place where PRELIMO bases are
located. Besides protection, those informers would receive much money from the Portuguese government, as a prize for their "patriotism". However their are toled that if they do.not obtain information, they will be arrested and will receive the same treatment as
the bandits.
The cupidity and or the fear make some Mozambicans to accept
the proposition of the Portuguese, and to betray their people• But,
as the whole people of their place know them to be puppets, nobody
reveals himself before them as a member of PRELIMO. Weeks sind months
pass witout the puppet boing able to provide any information to his.
bosses.
- 'Pushed by the greed for money or by fear of being arrested,he
goes to the administration and denounces randomly innucent people,
naming them as members and militants of FRELIMO, or saying that they
have connection with the guerrillas. The Portuguese authorities,without any investigation, send the police to arrest those Mozambicans
and torture'them to death, to make them "confess".
In all revolutions there have been traitors. In all revolutions, after the final.victory of the people, the traitors are brought before the people's tribunals in which their counter-revolutionary activities are denou$0& and punished.
In Mozambique, it v/ill also be so.
3. — MOZAMBIQUE WILL WIN ( letter from a guerrilla)
I wish to tell some concret facts about the Portuguese soldiers in the region where I am fighting.
We are constantly attacking the Portuguese troops. Some times
only 3 or 4 of an entire platoon escape, when they return to their
headquaters and tell the other soldiers about the attack and the heavy casualities they suffered, the moral of the whole Company become
extremely low. At meal-time, instead of eating in their canteens,
they take their plates to the trenches and eat there. At night they
do not dare to sleep in the barracks - they sleep in the bush, fearing our attacks, When a door bangs, when they hear any noise., thoy
get panic and often shoot wildly, seeing guerrillas everywhere.Everything - the people, the guerrillas, nature - all are enemies.
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| Title | CENPA-104~07 |
| Filename | CENPA-104~07.tiff |
| Full text | - 6 - 2. —. THE PUPPETS In the zones still imder Portuguese control but where PRELIMO is developing an intensive political activity, the Portuguese are . ./••- trying to find among the local people those who can be easily bought or deceived. These persons are principally local chiefs and small proprietors. They say .to those persons that PRELIMO is fighting to 'steal ;. their possessions and privilagos, that PRELIMO members are bandits. At the same time, they tell them that the Portuguese Government can help them to defend their goods and priviladges, if they accept to indicate, among the people, the members or organisers of FRELIMO, and to inform the authorities of the place where PRELIMO bases are located. Besides protection, those informers would receive much money from the Portuguese government, as a prize for their "patriotism". However their are toled that if they do.not obtain information, they will be arrested and will receive the same treatment as the bandits. The cupidity and or the fear make some Mozambicans to accept the proposition of the Portuguese, and to betray their people• But, as the whole people of their place know them to be puppets, nobody reveals himself before them as a member of PRELIMO. Weeks sind months pass witout the puppet boing able to provide any information to his. bosses. - 'Pushed by the greed for money or by fear of being arrested,he goes to the administration and denounces randomly innucent people, naming them as members and militants of FRELIMO, or saying that they have connection with the guerrillas. The Portuguese authorities,without any investigation, send the police to arrest those Mozambicans and torture'them to death, to make them "confess". In all revolutions there have been traitors. In all revolutions, after the final.victory of the people, the traitors are brought before the people's tribunals in which their counter-revolutionary activities are denou$0& and punished. In Mozambique, it v/ill also be so. 3. — MOZAMBIQUE WILL WIN ( letter from a guerrilla) I wish to tell some concret facts about the Portuguese soldiers in the region where I am fighting. We are constantly attacking the Portuguese troops. Some times only 3 or 4 of an entire platoon escape, when they return to their headquaters and tell the other soldiers about the attack and the heavy casualities they suffered, the moral of the whole Company become extremely low. At meal-time, instead of eating in their canteens, they take their plates to the trenches and eat there. At night they do not dare to sleep in the barracks - they sleep in the bush, fearing our attacks, When a door bangs, when they hear any noise., thoy get panic and often shoot wildly, seeing guerrillas everywhere.Everything - the people, the guerrillas, nature - all are enemies. |
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