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Detween the invaders and the Africans who have been defeated but did not lose hope. COLONIALIST POLICE REGIME It has already been mentioned in the "Brief History of Mozambique " that armed conflicts between the colonialists and the people of Mozambique had ceased in 1917. Logically, that means the beginning of a new era, an era of peace, tranquillity, understanding and progress between the defeated and the defeaters. However, this did not happen, for the general disarmament of the African population was followed by reprisals and anihilation. Let us look in a few short lines upon the facts which are being witnessed by our generation. Portugal's presence in Africa is claimed to be a "civilizing mission" to uplift the Africans and to convert them into Portuguese citizens. The Portuguese have argued that they do not practise the system of "apartheid" and that there are no colour barriers. Therefore one would picture a Portugal of the present time, matured by the wisdom of trial and error, by the ages, enlightened, progressive and following a policy based on high and noble pnnciples. Yet the expressions of interracial harmony are hopelessly unfounded. Yet what is happening in Mozambique, where a campaign of extermination is being waged by the Portuguese colonialists against the African population provides a clear and vivid example of the policies and principles of the Portugese colonial regime. Portugal's policy of "apartheid" is based on the doctrine that the mass of Africans are culturally, morally and educationally unprepared to exercise Portuguese citizenship. Therefore the law envisages two classes of inhabitants. The nao-indigenas : whites, mulattos and assimilados, (assimilated Africans) who by law enjoy full citizenship rights and are governed by the Portuguese common law. and the indigenas (natives) governed by a complex of controls known as the " regime de indigenato ". Having established these classes, the Portuguese have taken systematic steps to keep down, exploit' and effectually close against the indigenous African every avenue improvement. Here, Your Excellencies, we wish to call your esteemed attention to the fact that discrimination is largely practised in the form of prejudices by colour, race and class which has been rightly recognized as of social and psychological origin and an inhuman evil. Yet the government of Portugal, practising every form of inhuman justice against humanity, remains a member, of thex world organization with the full support of professed christian and democratic nations. Portugal has also practised by force, miscegenation, race mixing, slavery, slave labour, forced or contract, which have all been designed to deteriorate the African people in terms of populDtion, life and death rate. The system of establishing local government control for the specific benefit of Portugal for the past four hundred years must be ended for the cause of human justice, peace and human dignity. On the other hand even the assimilados do not enjoy the facilities of Portuguese citizenship, for they do not have the means to acquire them. The process of assimilation implemented in 1917 requires the African to prove that he can read and write Portuguese fluently and correcdy. have severed all 9 -
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-286~10 |
Filename | CENPA-286~10.tiff |
Full text | Detween the invaders and the Africans who have been defeated but did not lose hope. COLONIALIST POLICE REGIME It has already been mentioned in the "Brief History of Mozambique " that armed conflicts between the colonialists and the people of Mozambique had ceased in 1917. Logically, that means the beginning of a new era, an era of peace, tranquillity, understanding and progress between the defeated and the defeaters. However, this did not happen, for the general disarmament of the African population was followed by reprisals and anihilation. Let us look in a few short lines upon the facts which are being witnessed by our generation. Portugal's presence in Africa is claimed to be a "civilizing mission" to uplift the Africans and to convert them into Portuguese citizens. The Portuguese have argued that they do not practise the system of "apartheid" and that there are no colour barriers. Therefore one would picture a Portugal of the present time, matured by the wisdom of trial and error, by the ages, enlightened, progressive and following a policy based on high and noble pnnciples. Yet the expressions of interracial harmony are hopelessly unfounded. Yet what is happening in Mozambique, where a campaign of extermination is being waged by the Portuguese colonialists against the African population provides a clear and vivid example of the policies and principles of the Portugese colonial regime. Portugal's policy of "apartheid" is based on the doctrine that the mass of Africans are culturally, morally and educationally unprepared to exercise Portuguese citizenship. Therefore the law envisages two classes of inhabitants. The nao-indigenas : whites, mulattos and assimilados, (assimilated Africans) who by law enjoy full citizenship rights and are governed by the Portuguese common law. and the indigenas (natives) governed by a complex of controls known as the " regime de indigenato ". Having established these classes, the Portuguese have taken systematic steps to keep down, exploit' and effectually close against the indigenous African every avenue improvement. Here, Your Excellencies, we wish to call your esteemed attention to the fact that discrimination is largely practised in the form of prejudices by colour, race and class which has been rightly recognized as of social and psychological origin and an inhuman evil. Yet the government of Portugal, practising every form of inhuman justice against humanity, remains a member, of thex world organization with the full support of professed christian and democratic nations. Portugal has also practised by force, miscegenation, race mixing, slavery, slave labour, forced or contract, which have all been designed to deteriorate the African people in terms of populDtion, life and death rate. The system of establishing local government control for the specific benefit of Portugal for the past four hundred years must be ended for the cause of human justice, peace and human dignity. On the other hand even the assimilados do not enjoy the facilities of Portuguese citizenship, for they do not have the means to acquire them. The process of assimilation implemented in 1917 requires the African to prove that he can read and write Portuguese fluently and correcdy. have severed all 9 - |
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