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.
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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.
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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.
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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.