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COMITE REVOLUCIONARIO DE MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique Revolutionary Committee
(COREMO)
Over the past several years, 38 individual African countries
have achieved their independence.  At the present time in southern
Africa there are still five countries under foreign domination (Angola
Mozambique, Rhodesia, Southwest Africa, and South Africa).  Mozambique''
natives are second only to South Africans in subservience to their
white "masters.*'  Indeed, the Portuguese contract native help to South
Africa (200,000 at the present time) at no pay, and provided with less
than subsistence living conditions.  Fees are paid directly to the
Portuguese Government.  If a worker dies, the contractor merely report*
the death and a replacement worker is provided.  This constitutes even*
worse than "slavery" conditions.
In 1960, Mr. Paulo Jose Gumane, the former Mozambique
Government teacher and trade unionist, organized the AFRICAN FARMERS
UNION; later, he and others formed MOZAMBIQUE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
UNION (UNDENAMO).  In 1962 the rival of Mozambique Nationalists
started in Dar-es-Salaam, known as UNDENAMO and MANU.  These two groups
by June of the same year came together and formed the Mozambique
Liberation Front (FRELIMO) , tvhereby the former professor at Syracuse
University, Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, was elected as the President and
Mr. Paulo Jose Gumane was elected as Deputy General Secretary.  They
both worked hard to promote better conditions for self-determination
in Mozambique.  In June 1965, the Comite Revolucionario de Mozambique
or Mozambique Revolutionary Committee (COREMO) was formed under the
leadership of Mr. Paulo Jose Gumane.  Therefore, today the Portuguese
are facing renewed attacks by the fighting forces of COREMO and FRELIMO
1n  . Guerrilla fighters under the direction of COREMO are continually inflicting heavy casualties on the Portuguese troops in many
parts of Mozambique.  Since August of last year 71 Portuguese soldiers
have been killed and many wounded; arms, ammunition and military
vehicles have been captured or put out of action.  Fifteen bridaes
and many roads have been rendered unuseable.  Most of this action has
taken place in Tete, a northern district.  The largest single action
occurred December 24 and 25 in Rupea; three bridges and six military
vehicles were destroyed.  During all operations fifteen COREMO fighters
were killed, twenty-five wounded, and five captured.  The arms and
ammunitions captured and military vehicles destroyed were of United
Stafes Belgian, British, French and German make and had been supplied
to the Portuguese through NATO. ^
In retaliation to the African freedom effort, Portuguese
troops are intensifying their campaign of mass murder against the
Atrican population in the districts where COREMO guerrillas are most
active.  Men, women, and children over twelve, are arrested daily and
^nLt?nDSMAentruti°n Camps Where the^ are interrogated; those found
to be COREMO members or supporters are imprisoned and left to die without care; the rest are forced to work in government or private Portu^ue^
(or sometimes, as stated above, South African) enterprises for as much
as nine months without pay or medical attention