PORTUGUESE
ATROCITIES IN
MOZAMBIQUE
T^HE revolutionary struggle against
Portuguese     imperialism   and
colonialism  in Mozambique continues  with  much determination  as
the people arc daily engaged in the
'struggle \'oc thc liberation of their
fatherland. Each advancement of
the struggle bv thc freedom lighters
of Mozambique is met with ruthless suppression and counter-
struggle by the Portuguese imperialist bandwagon.
." With thc aid of their NATO
allies, the Portuguese dignity without any regard to thc present scientific age oi' civilisation and social
advancement of the peoples of the
.world, which call for political freedom and individual liberty, have .
kept the people of Mozambique
perpetually dark and subjected
them to all forms of inhuman treatment. b
ARBITRARY ARRESTS
Kidnaps. arrests, tear-gasi ng,
whipping and other forms of inhuman torture which are yet to find
their way into the dictionary, have
become thc only food and freedom
Salazar has guaranteed the people.
Real freedom namely, freedom of
association, of speech, of choice, of
worship, of work, is unknown to
the people of this country.
To enable them carry out their
notorious assignments in Mozambique, the 'imperialists established
training centres in the country, where
political secret and other state apparatuses of coercion are taught how
to trace and treat freedom fighters.
They also receive instructions in
the art of "Ruthlessncss and Brutality" in which subjects is situated
in-Vila Coutinho, about two hun
dred yards from thc Malawi (Nyasaland) border.
In the year 1953, during the
popular revolt in Mambone, a district in thc Southern Province, thc
Portuguese and their henchmen
arrested over twenty-eight people
including Rev. Andrea M. Machawa
and Mr. N. Majena who have since
then been languished in the Lourenco Marques Central dungeon.
The arbitrary arrest of the President of the Neucleli Negrofico de "
Manica e Solafa, Mr. S. Simango
and his comrades since 1956, simply
because they made a legal representation and protested against the
treatment of their people to the
Portuguese authority, goes to enhance thc injustice the Africans
have been, shown by these heartless crooks.
DETENTIONS
During a peaceful demonstration
by the people in September, 1961,
in Lourenco Marques, the Portuguese gestapo opened lire and as
a result over thirty people were
murdered and two hundrcd-and-
eight were detained. These detained
people have no hope of any freedom, no hope of seeing their respective families any more.
Again in July, 1961, during the
mass shooting of Angola people
and the Mozambican Nationalists
by the Portuguese fascists, Lt. Colonel C. Hornung, a British die-hard
colonialist and exploiter who owned
thc Sena Sugar Plantation Company in Mozambique, revealed in
the annual report of that year that
his company was playing its part tc
maintain imperialism in the country.
AFRICANS SHOT
He thus declared "our European
employees are vastly out-numbered
by Native workers and it is only
right that we should take steps to
protect them against any eventuality
and that is what is being done. Our
company will of course shoulder its
part of the burden in the support of
the policy of the Prime Minister,
Dr. Salazar, as 1 was able to assure
him when I again had thc private
of discussing the situation with him
earlier this year". (Quote South
African Contact of July 27, 1961).
There his prattle ended and he forgot what his fate would be if thc
people liberate themselves.
Between March 1962 and March
1963, many officials of thc National
Liberation Movements were arrested or kidnapped. Those kidnapped,
in Southern Rhodesia included
members of the Mozambican Nationalist Party such as Messrs Samuel
Moyana. Gabriel Moyana, Manuel
Machawa, Antonio Chigwc, Antonio Sekesi and Jose Nkovane. They
were afterwards handed over to thc
Portuguese rascals who in their
turn dealt with them in their own
fashion.
In 1963 many freedom lighters
were shot while trying to cross thc
Mozambique border. These include
Mrs. Seve Mavcneca, Mr. B. F.
Muandida and Mr. Mumbuca. In
December of the same year, Mr.
Samson Ali Makaba, the assistant
administrative secretary of the then
Mozambique African National
Union, was arrested while finding
his way into Tanganyika from
where he was running the Party.
BRUTALITY
The African workers are always
arrested or shot whenever they picket for better pay and condition of
service. In August, 1963, hundreds
of African workers were arrested
and detained at Mahcwa prison,
and over thirty were shot including
Mr. Paulo Baloi, thc spokesman of
the workers, during a demonstration,
peaceful of course, of the workers
at the Dock of Lourenco Marques.
On the 5th of December 1963,
fifteen African labourers were murdered when they protested against
the criminal laws imposed upon
them by the colonialists.
This in short denotes clearly thc
helplessness of the African and the
brutal dealings of thc Portuguese
imperialists.
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By   JAIME. KHAMBA
INVOICE OF AFRICA .27
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