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avenge his losses by ruthlessly attacking African villagers, killing,
wounding and rendering homeless many people.  Mr. Machial felt
morally offended and decided to desert the army.
Mr. Machial stated further that the Portugu 'ese soldiers had no
desire to fight, and do so only because they are ordered to by
their officers.  He feels   that as a Mozambican born person,
he has no reason to engage in v/ar against the African people.
In reference to the activities of the Portuguese police,
Mr. Machial said that every day large truck loads of African
people are being -transported to the main towns for investigation.
The Portuguese police arrest any African person who may be suspected
of being nationalist.
One of the cases of torture v/hich he witnessed v/as an African
man who v/as suspected of being a member of FRELIMO^ He was
tied by his ankles and hung over a waterhole. When hit head was
touching the water, the police v/ould ask him .questions about his
political activities, threatening to drown him if he did not talk.
The man did not say anything politically or militarily significant,
so they drowned him.  Many African people die this way.
Mr. Machial also told of many people whose arms were broken
by PIDE officers as they v/ere trying to make them talk.  Many
Africans are dropped out of planes without parachutes or are drowned
in the high seas, and so on.
Last month an African soldier in the Portuguese colonialist
army was beaten to death after Commander Walter da Silva Almeida of
the Milange garrison had found a FRELIMO card in his possession.
The sokldier was Private no.  88/62 of the Portuguese army.
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SABOTAGE ACTIONS
Parallel to the armed struggle, the militants of FRELIMO
commit  acts of sabotage within Mozambique in order to demoralise
the Portuguese people and weaken the economy of the colony.  The
Portuguese authorities try to hide these operations, but some of
them are so notorious, so obvious and public that even the Portuguese authorities are forced to recognise and publish them.  All
those wo cite below were published in the Portuguese newspaper
"Diario de Mocambique"s
In Nampula our militants burned 9 wagons full of merchandise
belonging to the Mozambique Railway, exploded one wagon tank of
gas oil and burned two other wagons full of cotton from the Cotton
Society of Niassa.  The value of the cotton v/as more than £12,500.
In Antonio Enes, FRELIMO militants burned a warehouse in the
outskirts of the village. The flames destroyed one hundred tons
of