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7. On the 20th of February, the administrator of Macomia in the District of Cabo Delgado sent emissaries warning these people that they must return to their villages because all Africans found in the bush would be killed. On the other hand, he said, those v/ho returned to their villages would not be prosecuted. Some Mozambicans let themselves be influenced by the v/ords of the Portuguese and came back. On the 22nd of February, groups of Portuguese soldiers went through the villages, arresting all the inhabitants who had returned. All of them, men women and children, were put in big lorries and transported to one of the villages. There they were put into four of the largest huts. The huts were set on fire, and while they burned, the Portuguese soldiers sprayed them v/ith machine gun bullets. The only survivors were a woman and her four year old child, hideously burned and mutilated, who v/ere taken from the wreckage by other inhabitants who approached after dark when the Portuguese soldiers had left. ******* On the 12th of March, a fifteen year old Mozambican girl was killed in Mueda by a mine placed in the road by the Portuguese soldiers. ******* On the 16th of March, a group of Portuguese soldiers v/ent from Muidumbe to the region of Cavanga. There they found a woman planting potatoes. The Portuguese accused her of doing this to feed the rebels. They shot and killed her. ************ PIO GAMA PINTO WAS MURDERED Pio Gama Pinto, son of Goans, v/as born in Kenya 37 years ago. Wiiile yet a child ho went to G-oa, returning to Kenya in 1947. During the Mau Mau struggle against British colonialism, Pio Pinto fought with the Kenyan people as a real Kenyan. Arrested in 1954 by the British, he was not released until five years later in 1959. Soon after he was freed, Pio Pinto resumed political activities in the Kenya African Nations*!. Union (KANU) headed by Jomo Kenyatta. Pio Pinto was a member of tho Central Legislative Assembly of East Africa and a member of the Kenya Parliament. He was also one of che directors of the newspaper Panafrica, as well as one of the leaders of the Lumui.ba Institute", which was inaugurated by President Kenyatta in Nairobi last Decern:er.
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Title | CENPA-122~09 |
Filename | CENPA-122~09.tiff |
Full text | 7. On the 20th of February, the administrator of Macomia in the District of Cabo Delgado sent emissaries warning these people that they must return to their villages because all Africans found in the bush would be killed. On the other hand, he said, those v/ho returned to their villages would not be prosecuted. Some Mozambicans let themselves be influenced by the v/ords of the Portuguese and came back. On the 22nd of February, groups of Portuguese soldiers went through the villages, arresting all the inhabitants who had returned. All of them, men women and children, were put in big lorries and transported to one of the villages. There they were put into four of the largest huts. The huts were set on fire, and while they burned, the Portuguese soldiers sprayed them v/ith machine gun bullets. The only survivors were a woman and her four year old child, hideously burned and mutilated, who v/ere taken from the wreckage by other inhabitants who approached after dark when the Portuguese soldiers had left. ******* On the 12th of March, a fifteen year old Mozambican girl was killed in Mueda by a mine placed in the road by the Portuguese soldiers. ******* On the 16th of March, a group of Portuguese soldiers v/ent from Muidumbe to the region of Cavanga. There they found a woman planting potatoes. The Portuguese accused her of doing this to feed the rebels. They shot and killed her. ************ PIO GAMA PINTO WAS MURDERED Pio Gama Pinto, son of Goans, v/as born in Kenya 37 years ago. Wiiile yet a child ho went to G-oa, returning to Kenya in 1947. During the Mau Mau struggle against British colonialism, Pio Pinto fought with the Kenyan people as a real Kenyan. Arrested in 1954 by the British, he was not released until five years later in 1959. Soon after he was freed, Pio Pinto resumed political activities in the Kenya African Nations*!. Union (KANU) headed by Jomo Kenyatta. Pio Pinto was a member of tho Central Legislative Assembly of East Africa and a member of the Kenya Parliament. He was also one of che directors of the newspaper Panafrica, as well as one of the leaders of the Lumui.ba Institute", which was inaugurated by President Kenyatta in Nairobi last Decern:er. |
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