10.
However, time was passing. The crowd began moving impatiently.
"Vanotamba, maputuges!", the chief of the village told him again
threateningly.
Then the man was overcome by fear. Cowardly and fearful as all
colonists are when they do not have numbers and the force of arms to
protect them, the trader began dancing; better, he began jumping as
a clown does, fat, grotesque, unable to coordinate his movements, his
pants sagging down.
Loud laughter started among the Mozambicans, an immense laugh in
unison, a laugh v/hose meaning was the approaching end of Portuguese
domination in our country. The Portuguese man felt the ridiculousness
of his situation. Desperately, he tried to run, but he was caught by
one Mozambican who, lifting him. over his head, threw him into the fire.
Crawling, crying with fear, the Portuguese nan dragged himself to
his car.  The Mozambicans let him pass. The car disappeared into the
night.
The next day a patrol of 15 Portuguese soldiers went to the
village. They did not find anyone. The FRELIMO militants, knowing
that a fatal repressive action would take place, had evacuated the
village, distributing the inhabitants to other villages and hiding the
chief. The soldiers could only burn the village.
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This event was referred to in the Portuguese newspaper "Diario
de Mozambique" as followst
"When witnessing a batuque, Sr. Artur Agostinho Pacheco
was violently thrown into the fire by an African. He was
seriously burned on both knees and had to go to hospital,
where, due to the seriousness of his condition, he had to
remain.
"The police are investigating the occurrence."
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Many times we have been asked if Portugal is really a fascist
state, if there is some exaggeration when the Portuguese regime is
characterised as dictatorial, if the repression to which the Portuguese
people are subjected is similar to that which weighs over us Mozambicans. •
Through an analysis of the juridical and administrative system of
Portugal, we could prove, irrefutably, that in fact a fascist regime
holds sway "in Portugal, that the Portuguese people are not free and
that to them also the most elementary democratic liberties are denied.
But there is one other way, perhaps more convincing, of producing
proof of this reality;  through the description of concrete facts