man. He showed some of the prisoners a card with a red
cross on it to prove that he came from that organisation
because some of the prisoners were afraid to speak to
him. On three occasions previously they had been
tricked by some Portuguese who had come to investigate them but posed as employees of the United Nations
or other organisations. Andrea had been told that
FRELIMO guerrillas were detained there, but the prisoners   told him  that none of them were guerrillas.
In I960 while we were still in the Limpopo area in the
Mabalane prison, we received a note saying that we were
called - I mean me, Jacinto Mchakeka, Cornelio Man-
danda, Andrea Nikutume and Clementino Nandanga -
by the authorities because they wanted to set us free
and send us to our areas of birth, to persuade the people
there to stop fighting and surrender. They said that as
we were the ones who had persuaded them to start the
struggle, so we should go back and persuade them to stop.
We were afraid at first, but we wer{e taken to the authorities who took us to Mueda. The rest of my comrades
remained there and I was taken to%Mocimboa da Praia.
There I found that the people - the civilian population -
were concentrated in places surrounded by barbed wire.
I asked them why this was so and they said it was for
security reasons and that they were not allowed to leave
that place.»
We had already agreed that we would not do what the
Portuguese wanted but would stay with them for nine
days and on the tenth day we would go and join FRELIMO. So on the tenth day I went into the bush and
found that it was true that the Portuguese were bombing
the grain in the fields. At Nachidunga I saw a big field
where the millet and maize had been bombed. But I
proceeded on my way and found the FRELIMO militants, and discovered that in fact, contrary to what the
Portuguese had said, there were still many many civilians with FRELIMO.»
I . . . The refusal of the colonial-fascist govern-
1| ment  of   Portugal   to   recognise  our  right to
i| independence, as well as the war of aggression
1| in all its forms waged against our people, consti-
1| tutes a grave infringement against human rights
1| in our country.
1| The defense of human rights in our country
§| demands the affirmation of the rights of the
§| Mozambican people to national independence
| and the support in all its aspects - political,
military and social - to our struggle for liberation.
It demands also, obligatory, the condemnation
of   Portuguese   colonialism   and   the wars of
aggression, together with all its crimes.
i| Finally, it demands the condemnation of all
i| countries and organisations that support Portu- ||
1| gal politically, militarily or financially, thus
i| enabling her to wage three colonial wars of
|| aggression in Africa - in Mozambique, Angola
Il and Guine. ?
Excerpt of FRELIMO's statement to the
the Human Rights Group.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC   EVIDENCE   OF   PORTUGUESE   BRUTALITY   IN    MOZAMBIQUE
Left: a captured Mozambican is beheaded by Portuguese soldiers in a jungle clearing.
Right: after the killing, the grinning executioner displays to the cameraman the trophy -
the head of the Mozambican patriot.