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aldeamentos, surrounded by barbed
wire and guarded and administrated
by para-military, or military forces
(these are very similar to the strategic hamlets used by their allies,
the Americans in Vietnam, and on whose
experience they are drawing more and
more). But they fail to realise, that
the "peculiar behaviour " that they
observe is the determination to win
freedom which no amount of barbed
wire can contain* The people v/ill not
be herded together like animals but
will be free to run . their own affairs
and their own country. And through
FRELIMO they will do this. Several
strategic hamlets have already been
attacked and many of our people set
free* e*g. in an attack by combined
forces from several of our bases, the
hamlet of Nancunela was captured and
69 people freed* Other 'psycho-social'7 actions used by the Portuguese
include financial inducements for weapons turned in, (e0g* mortars
and anti-personnel mines, % 42 each; automatic carbines, $17.50;
machine guns $ 35°), extensive propaganda campaigns dropping thousands
of leaflets in local languages urging the people to desert FRELIMO (in
v/hich the aircraft invariably violate the airspace of neighbouring
countries) and "education". A crash course is being undertaken to teach
newly recruited African soldiers to speak Portuguese. A major from the
"Psychological Action Section" has been appointed director of the course,
the aim of which is to help the soldiers achieve "social integration"
in the army, to develop "a new Portuguese and Christian mentality17,
"so that in time they will identify themselves with the Portuguese
community". It must be stressed here that language instruction by no
means stems from a desire to improve the conditions of the people through
education. As a Mozambique Deputy in the National Assembly, Dr. Nazare,
pointed out - as the problem was one of communication with the African
populations and v/hereas literacy programmes could wait, the first effort
should be to teach the African population to speak and to understand
Portuguese.
Admiral Rogeiro de Castro e Silva, Director of the Naval Institute of
War in Lisbon has explained in the same vein; -Today the possession of
territory is unimportant, it is the population that is important.
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| Title | CENPA-339~30 |
| Filename | CENPA-339~30.tiff |
| Full text | aldeamentos, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded and administrated by para-military, or military forces (these are very similar to the strategic hamlets used by their allies, the Americans in Vietnam, and on whose experience they are drawing more and more). But they fail to realise, that the "peculiar behaviour " that they observe is the determination to win freedom which no amount of barbed wire can contain* The people v/ill not be herded together like animals but will be free to run . their own affairs and their own country. And through FRELIMO they will do this. Several strategic hamlets have already been attacked and many of our people set free* e*g. in an attack by combined forces from several of our bases, the hamlet of Nancunela was captured and 69 people freed* Other 'psycho-social'7 actions used by the Portuguese include financial inducements for weapons turned in, (e0g* mortars and anti-personnel mines, % 42 each; automatic carbines, $17.50; machine guns $ 35°), extensive propaganda campaigns dropping thousands of leaflets in local languages urging the people to desert FRELIMO (in v/hich the aircraft invariably violate the airspace of neighbouring countries) and "education". A crash course is being undertaken to teach newly recruited African soldiers to speak Portuguese. A major from the "Psychological Action Section" has been appointed director of the course, the aim of which is to help the soldiers achieve "social integration" in the army, to develop "a new Portuguese and Christian mentality17, "so that in time they will identify themselves with the Portuguese community". It must be stressed here that language instruction by no means stems from a desire to improve the conditions of the people through education. As a Mozambique Deputy in the National Assembly, Dr. Nazare, pointed out - as the problem was one of communication with the African populations and v/hereas literacy programmes could wait, the first effort should be to teach the African population to speak and to understand Portuguese. Admiral Rogeiro de Castro e Silva, Director of the Naval Institute of War in Lisbon has explained in the same vein; -Today the possession of territory is unimportant, it is the population that is important. 26 |
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