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- 2 EDITORIAL Ame'rico Toma's, the President of the Republic of Portugal, is "visiting" Mozambique. This visit takes place v/hen the war in Angola and Guinea has already begun,when the people of Mozambique are organising an armed struggle. This visit takes place when the morale of the Portuguese people in the colonies is extremely low due to the realising of the inevitability of the loss of their positions, when the nationalist forces will give a final blow to colonialism. The Portuguese people in Mozambiqe are afraid. They are hurriedly organising themselves into militias, they arm themselves, they intensify their repressive measures against our African brothers. They have fear because they know they represent a dying colonialism, and it is against them that our guns are pointed. The visit of Americo Tomas to Mozambique has, in this context a clear purpose: to uplift the morale of the Portuguese people settled there; to remind them that the Portuguese government is with them in defence of their interests and their privileges; to make them conscious of the presence of the 35,000 Portuguese soldiers in Mozambique and of ohe 17,600,000 dollars spent to finance that army. Such a manoeuvre is well known, to send the head of the colonialist State to the colonies in a time of crisis. Through it, the colonists feel nearer the protection of the mother country, and the danger of the emancipation of the people appears remote. They become more active in repression, more decided in exploitation, more rooted in "their" colony. This visit is made with fanfare. Journalists from friendly nations were invited, prepared to see and to report only what the Portuguese wanted them to see and to report. Popular masses were mobilised to participate in demonstrations. The masses let themselves be mobilised. They went to the places they were told to go to, they applauded when the signal to applaud was given, they even shouted vivas to Portugal and Salazar when there were ordered to do so. The people know what would be the consequence of open refusal. The massacres they have seen, the imprisonments and the tortures that daily take place among them - often only because the authorities suspected that one or another of them was a 'nationalist1, the deportations that depended exclusively on the will of the administrators. All those events check the people from open opposition - and make them go. Moreover, the man that is "visiting" us today does not have an active voice in the determination of the colonial policy Of Portugal, though he has the title of President of the Republic. /In...
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Full text | - 2 EDITORIAL Ame'rico Toma's, the President of the Republic of Portugal, is "visiting" Mozambique. This visit takes place v/hen the war in Angola and Guinea has already begun,when the people of Mozambique are organising an armed struggle. This visit takes place when the morale of the Portuguese people in the colonies is extremely low due to the realising of the inevitability of the loss of their positions, when the nationalist forces will give a final blow to colonialism. The Portuguese people in Mozambiqe are afraid. They are hurriedly organising themselves into militias, they arm themselves, they intensify their repressive measures against our African brothers. They have fear because they know they represent a dying colonialism, and it is against them that our guns are pointed. The visit of Americo Tomas to Mozambique has, in this context a clear purpose: to uplift the morale of the Portuguese people settled there; to remind them that the Portuguese government is with them in defence of their interests and their privileges; to make them conscious of the presence of the 35,000 Portuguese soldiers in Mozambique and of ohe 17,600,000 dollars spent to finance that army. Such a manoeuvre is well known, to send the head of the colonialist State to the colonies in a time of crisis. Through it, the colonists feel nearer the protection of the mother country, and the danger of the emancipation of the people appears remote. They become more active in repression, more decided in exploitation, more rooted in "their" colony. This visit is made with fanfare. Journalists from friendly nations were invited, prepared to see and to report only what the Portuguese wanted them to see and to report. Popular masses were mobilised to participate in demonstrations. The masses let themselves be mobilised. They went to the places they were told to go to, they applauded when the signal to applaud was given, they even shouted vivas to Portugal and Salazar when there were ordered to do so. The people know what would be the consequence of open refusal. The massacres they have seen, the imprisonments and the tortures that daily take place among them - often only because the authorities suspected that one or another of them was a 'nationalist1, the deportations that depended exclusively on the will of the administrators. All those events check the people from open opposition - and make them go. Moreover, the man that is "visiting" us today does not have an active voice in the determination of the colonial policy Of Portugal, though he has the title of President of the Republic. /In... |
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