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10.
Everyone knows that the colonialists thesis cf "pluricontin-
ental and multiracial" society is intended to camouflage only one
aim: exploitation. We knew this from our own painful experience,
The Portuguese colonialists can claim that they do not want
to leave our country. They will leave.
**********
PRESS CONFERENCE 6 AUGUST 1965
FRELIMO Action Forces Portuguese Ban
on African Organisation
As v/as announced in the press, the Centre Associative dos
Negros de Mozambique, the most important African civic organisation in Mozambique, v/as recently banned by the Salazar Government.
This is the latest in a series of desperate, oppressive measures
carried' cut by the Portuguese authorities as a show cf power in a
country that for the last ten months has been beseiged by the
liberation forces led by the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
In trying to justify the banning of this non-political organisation, the Salazar regime said that it v/as disturbing the
social and political order, and that many of the leaders and
members of the organisation v/ere involved in the politico-military
activities, of, .FRELIMO. . :... .............
Previous to this statement, the Portuguese Government arrested
the entire Executive Committee of the Centro Associative, after the
authorities had tried in vain tc load it with government stooges.
They trumped up charges against the Executive Committee, and
accused them of being members of FRELIMO, v/hich they consider a N
terrorist and subversive movement.
Among the Centro leaders thus arrested v/ere the following:
Luis Bernardo Honwana, author and journalist
Malangatane Valente Ngv/enya, artist and poet
Domingos Antonio Arouca, lawyer
Abner Sansao Muthemba, medical assistant
Daniel Tome Magaia, municipal clerk, etc.
and some well-known European civic personalities, such as:
Joao Correira dos Reis, founder of "The Tribune",
a leading Lourenpo Marques paper
Rui Nogar, author and poet
These arrests v/ere part of a series v/hich resulted in the
arrest of more than 2,000 Mozambican citizens, and which began soon
after the strat of the armed struggle in September 1964.
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| Title | CENPA-126~12 |
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| Full text | 10. Everyone knows that the colonialists thesis cf "pluricontin- ental and multiracial" society is intended to camouflage only one aim: exploitation. We knew this from our own painful experience, The Portuguese colonialists can claim that they do not want to leave our country. They will leave. ********** PRESS CONFERENCE 6 AUGUST 1965 FRELIMO Action Forces Portuguese Ban on African Organisation As v/as announced in the press, the Centre Associative dos Negros de Mozambique, the most important African civic organisation in Mozambique, v/as recently banned by the Salazar Government. This is the latest in a series of desperate, oppressive measures carried' cut by the Portuguese authorities as a show cf power in a country that for the last ten months has been beseiged by the liberation forces led by the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). In trying to justify the banning of this non-political organisation, the Salazar regime said that it v/as disturbing the social and political order, and that many of the leaders and members of the organisation v/ere involved in the politico-military activities, of, .FRELIMO. . :... ............. Previous to this statement, the Portuguese Government arrested the entire Executive Committee of the Centro Associative, after the authorities had tried in vain tc load it with government stooges. They trumped up charges against the Executive Committee, and accused them of being members of FRELIMO, v/hich they consider a N terrorist and subversive movement. Among the Centro leaders thus arrested v/ere the following: Luis Bernardo Honwana, author and journalist Malangatane Valente Ngv/enya, artist and poet Domingos Antonio Arouca, lawyer Abner Sansao Muthemba, medical assistant Daniel Tome Magaia, municipal clerk, etc. and some well-known European civic personalities, such as: Joao Correira dos Reis, founder of "The Tribune", a leading Lourenpo Marques paper Rui Nogar, author and poet These arrests v/ere part of a series v/hich resulted in the arrest of more than 2,000 Mozambican citizens, and which began soon after the strat of the armed struggle in September 1964. |
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