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intensified bombardments, the deployment of more troops, the use of
more modern equipment, the Portuguese forces continue to suffer defeats5
their attempts to "recapture- the territories won by FRELIMO had no
success5 our forces even entered a new phase, attacking and assaulting
Portuguese posts much more fortified, and capturing their soldiers and
equipment.
In view of this failure, Caetano resolved to continue the
tactic pursued by his pre-
dessor, Salazar: to combine
the military action with the
infiltration of agents and the
assassination of the leaders
of FRELIMO, and at the same
time to intensify the campaign for the demobilisation
of the populations (the so-
called psycho-social action).
In keeping v/ith this plan,
in December, 1968, the Portuguese authorities established
contacts with the Provincial
Secretary of Cabo Delgado,
Lazaro Nkavandame, and offered
him money - 50,000 escudos,
to desert and return to them
promising him a pardon and
good treatment. The Portuguese had known Lazaro for a long time,
when
he worked with them and they knew (better than FRELIMO) that Lazaro could
be bought easily.
Corrupt, with a history o£ and a taste for the exploitation of the people,
Lazaro accepted the offer of the Portuguese. FRELIMO captured the letters
in which the agreement was establishedo Before running away, Lazaro organised the assassination of a FRELIMO military commander, our Comrade
Paulo Kankhomba, on the 22nd December, 1968. He ran away and gave himself
up to the Portuguese who, however, only announced the defection several
weeks later, through propaganda outcries, making it more or less coincide with the visit of Marcelo Caetano to the colonies„ The Portuguese
used Lazaro for an immense propaganda campaign designed to make the world
believe that FRELIMO was 'finished'7. But, in keeping with their tendency
to exaggerate they ended up by discrediting themselves«> No one believed
them when they announced that 50,000 guerrillas had surrendered with
Lazaro ( in fact he v/ent with 7 people, his companions in the exploitation)<
But there is no doubt that the psychological effect of this propaganda
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| Full text | intensified bombardments, the deployment of more troops, the use of more modern equipment, the Portuguese forces continue to suffer defeats5 their attempts to "recapture- the territories won by FRELIMO had no success5 our forces even entered a new phase, attacking and assaulting Portuguese posts much more fortified, and capturing their soldiers and equipment. In view of this failure, Caetano resolved to continue the tactic pursued by his pre- dessor, Salazar: to combine the military action with the infiltration of agents and the assassination of the leaders of FRELIMO, and at the same time to intensify the campaign for the demobilisation of the populations (the so- called psycho-social action). In keeping v/ith this plan, in December, 1968, the Portuguese authorities established contacts with the Provincial Secretary of Cabo Delgado, Lazaro Nkavandame, and offered him money - 50,000 escudos, to desert and return to them promising him a pardon and good treatment. The Portuguese had known Lazaro for a long time, when he worked with them and they knew (better than FRELIMO) that Lazaro could be bought easily. Corrupt, with a history o£ and a taste for the exploitation of the people, Lazaro accepted the offer of the Portuguese. FRELIMO captured the letters in which the agreement was establishedo Before running away, Lazaro organised the assassination of a FRELIMO military commander, our Comrade Paulo Kankhomba, on the 22nd December, 1968. He ran away and gave himself up to the Portuguese who, however, only announced the defection several weeks later, through propaganda outcries, making it more or less coincide with the visit of Marcelo Caetano to the colonies„ The Portuguese used Lazaro for an immense propaganda campaign designed to make the world believe that FRELIMO was 'finished'7. But, in keeping with their tendency to exaggerate they ended up by discrediting themselves«> No one believed them when they announced that 50,000 guerrillas had surrendered with Lazaro ( in fact he v/ent with 7 people, his companions in the exploitation)< But there is no doubt that the psychological effect of this propaganda 19 |
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