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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. i2 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.
Object Description
Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 45 (1970 Oct.-Dec.) |
Description | Contents: Editorial: The coming victory (p. 1); Invasion of Guinea: The lesson for Africa (p. 3); War communique: Big offensive defeated (p. 6); Portuguese atrocities in Mozambique: Hears the evidence (p. 8); Cahora Bassa: Why we say no (p.13); The struggle in Niassa province by Niassa's military commander (p.15); Journey with a camera: British film-makers in Mozambique (p.18); Once they came with sweets and gifts: Portuguese psychological warfare (p. 20); Streamlined exploitation: Caetano calls it 'autonomy' (p. 23). |
Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273465 |
Coverage date | 1961/1970-11 |
Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date issued | 1970-10/1970-12 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 28 p. |
Format (aat) | newsletters |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
Filename | CENPA-344 |
Description
Title | CENPA-344~14 |
Filename | CENPA-344~14.tiff |
Full text | 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. i2 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. |
Archival file | Volume21/CENPA-344~14.tiff |