Who are these assailants? This is an important
question to answer.
From the large group v/ho attacked our office, we
were able to recognise only two persons, who had deserted from the FRELIMO army more than a year ago. All
the others were unknown to us* Later, we discovered that
they were emigrants from Mozambique who had come to
Tanganyika many years ago and who have no relations with
our liberation struggle* There are many Mozambicans
who live in countries surrounding Mozambique who have
escaped from Portuguese colonial exploitation and oppression. In the early stages of our organisation, many of
these emigrants were a part of the FRELIMO political
structure. However, in the course of the development
of the struggle, all of our efforts in organisation
and mobilisation had to be concentrated in the interior
of Mozambique. In 1965, soon after the beginning of war
in Mozambique, an agreement betv/een the Tanzanian
Government and FRELIMO established that Mozambicans
living in Tanzania who wanted to participate in the liberation movement, had to either 1) return to Mozambique
to participate fully in the liberation struggle, or
2) join the liberation army being trained outside of
Mozambique, or 3)  be full-time staff members of FRELIMO,
subject to FRELIMO authority, or 4) settle in one of the
Mozambican refugee camps, or 5) be citizens of Tanzania,
participating as citizens in the normal life of the
countryo Those people in the last category who wished
to contribute to the Mozambican liberation struggle
might do so through Tanzania's own political organ, TANU.
It was agreed at this time that FRELIMO would no longer
carry on political mobilisation among Mozambican emigrants living in Tanzania. All branch offices in Tanzania
v/ere therefore closed.
With the above facts in mind, the question must be
asked in which category do the people who have participated in the criminal assault in the name of Mozambican
politics belong? Whoever these people may be, the Mozambican people have a right to know what has recently
been happening in Tanzania. It is in the Congress that
this matter will be brought before our people*
However, the principal matters for which the Congress is being convened have to do with the problems of
the developing political-social structures which need
general discussion among Mozambicans within.our own
country. Some of these problems are 1) the working relationship between the military and the civilian administration; 2) the ways to increase production through agriculture, cooperatives, commerce, cottage industries,etc;
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