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-**}
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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