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Statement Made by : Mr. David J. M. Mabunda and Mr. John Sakupwanya REPRESENTING THE MOZAMBIQUE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC UNION (UDENAMO) AT THE 1470 th. MEETING OF THF FOURTH COMMITTEE ON 7 NOVEMBER-**} ) Mr. Chairman, DISTINGUISHED DELEG \TES, We have the honour to address to this highest world Assembly, on behalf of the Mozambique National Democratic Union, which is a nationalist organization fighting for the freedom of the country from Portuguese colonial rule, to submit for Your consideration the grievous reality in which contends for nearly five centuries the suffering people of Mozambique, our fatherland. We request Your Excellencies to lend Your ears and Your peaceful spirits to penetrate into a brief report of horror and tragedy in the history of COLONIALISM, a history of the Portugue- ese colonial rule over the African populations of one of the territories which, under the complaisant eyes of the world Organization, Portugal has under domination in Africa. It is the history of the subjugation of one nation by another in all possible aspects, whether in the individual, politico-administrative, educational, labour, economical, social, military, judicial, medical and hospital fields Unfortunately, wherever the Portuguese colonialist has touched on the Mozambican soil, he created barriers and enslaved peoples. We in Mozambique live with an enemy that is bent on using force to delay his departure from our country. For Over 400 years, Portugal has held on to Mozambique. O'er this part of the African continent, Portugal rules ruthlessly and uncompromisingly over its indigenous inhabitants exceeding 7 million. The rulers of Portugal not only sought to subjugate and exploit them economically but have attempted to destory completely their culture and society in order to reduce them to a position of inferiority forever. We, therefore, wish to bring to the urgent notice of your Excellencies, the threat to peace in Africa that is inherent in the present political crises in Mozambique and to request that through the good offices of Your Excellencies, the matter be brought up in the plenary session at this eighteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly, in Order to exert pressure to bear upon the Portuguese Government. In /spite of Portugal's shouting to the world and to the United Nations that Mozambique is a province, this has never been a fact. The simple statement of overseas province" reflects in itself a politico—administrative discrimination. The black man does not
Object Description
Title | The UDENAMO at United Nations, 1963 Nov. 7 |
Description | On the 7 th November, 1963, a UDENAMO delegation appeared as petitioners before the fourth (Trusteeship and non-self governing territories) Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, to present the case of the Mozambique people to this world body. The members of the delegation were Mr David J. M. Mabunda, Vice President of the Mozambique National Democratic Union (UDENAMO) and Mr John Z. Sakupwanya, UDENAMO representative in the Americas and a student in the U. S. A. The document is a full text of the petition submitted by the UDENAMO delegation. |
Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273410 |
Coverage date | 1498/1963-11-07 |
Creator | The National Democratic Union of Mozambique (UDENAMO) |
Publisher (of the Original Version) | The National Democratic Union of Mozambique (UDENAMO) |
Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Zamalek, Cairo |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created | ca. 1963-11 |
Date issued | ca. 1963-11 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 23 p. |
Format (aat) | petitions |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
Filename | CENPA-286 |
Description
Title | CENPA-286~04 |
Filename | CENPA-286~04.tiff |
Full text | Statement Made by : Mr. David J. M. Mabunda and Mr. John Sakupwanya REPRESENTING THE MOZAMBIQUE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC UNION (UDENAMO) AT THE 1470 th. MEETING OF THF FOURTH COMMITTEE ON 7 NOVEMBER-**} ) Mr. Chairman, DISTINGUISHED DELEG \TES, We have the honour to address to this highest world Assembly, on behalf of the Mozambique National Democratic Union, which is a nationalist organization fighting for the freedom of the country from Portuguese colonial rule, to submit for Your consideration the grievous reality in which contends for nearly five centuries the suffering people of Mozambique, our fatherland. We request Your Excellencies to lend Your ears and Your peaceful spirits to penetrate into a brief report of horror and tragedy in the history of COLONIALISM, a history of the Portugue- ese colonial rule over the African populations of one of the territories which, under the complaisant eyes of the world Organization, Portugal has under domination in Africa. It is the history of the subjugation of one nation by another in all possible aspects, whether in the individual, politico-administrative, educational, labour, economical, social, military, judicial, medical and hospital fields Unfortunately, wherever the Portuguese colonialist has touched on the Mozambican soil, he created barriers and enslaved peoples. We in Mozambique live with an enemy that is bent on using force to delay his departure from our country. For Over 400 years, Portugal has held on to Mozambique. O'er this part of the African continent, Portugal rules ruthlessly and uncompromisingly over its indigenous inhabitants exceeding 7 million. The rulers of Portugal not only sought to subjugate and exploit them economically but have attempted to destory completely their culture and society in order to reduce them to a position of inferiority forever. We, therefore, wish to bring to the urgent notice of your Excellencies, the threat to peace in Africa that is inherent in the present political crises in Mozambique and to request that through the good offices of Your Excellencies, the matter be brought up in the plenary session at this eighteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly, in Order to exert pressure to bear upon the Portuguese Government. In /spite of Portugal's shouting to the world and to the United Nations that Mozambique is a province, this has never been a fact. The simple statement of overseas province" reflects in itself a politico—administrative discrimination. The black man does not |
Archival file | Volume18/CENPA-286~04.tiff |