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It was just such absurdities which prompted a cameraman who visited our liberated zones in Niassa Province in October of last year to comment (as quoted in an earlier issue of Mozambique Revolution): 'The Portuguese reports have begun to defeat their own objectives. For if FRELIMO had been wiped out in June, how could they be wiped out again in August and now again in December? The pattern which he then so correctly identified has merely continued. The very commander who last year exhorted his troops to sieze total victory with a single blow (and later claimed just such a victory) now, in April 1971, tells his men to 'go forth, fight and win'.'If the results live up to the expectations, another — and perhaps decisive — step will have been taken to win the war and to win the peace'. And perhaps the international press is poised, even now, to announce yet another total victory! The truth, is, of course, the exact reverse of these various claims (and such rhetoric cannot long continue to conceal the defeats which the Portuguese are suffering on all fronts in Mozambique). For far from being a 'great offensive' the Portuguese operations for 1971 are actually a desperate attempted counter-offensive designed to contain our own advances. In fact, in Cabo Delgado we are attacking the enemy on the outskirts of the capital, Porto Amelia; our fighters are operating on both sides of the river Montepuez and opening new foci of armed struggle well behind the defensive perimeter claimed by the enemy. In Niassa Province we have isolated the capital Vila Cabral, while at the same time extending the armed struggle towards the South and East. In Tete Province, we control large regions North of the Zambezi River. Our guerrillas have crossed the river and are operating in the Southern zone, having already engaged in important battles throughout the whole of that zone, thereby directly threatening the imperialist project at Cahora Bassa. Thus, this fresh 'great offensive' found our fighters and people not only prepared for it, with all roads mined, the masses armed and guerrillas at their posts, but actually on the attack themselves. And when the Portuguese entered the bush they were literally decimated, as can be confirmed from the reports of our military operations which are published elsewhere in this issue. In the figures which are now available one can already see yet another 'great offensive' smashed before it even begins. In fact the only serious casualty of this year's futile military efforts may well be the myth of Portuguese 'success' itself. %■«*- h«&**S %£l
Object Description
Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 47 (1971 May-June) |
Description | Contents: The truth that Portugal cannot conceal - Editorial (p. 1); Reports from the military front (p. 3); The freedom struggle - as the people see it - a people's meeting in Tete province (p. 6); Josina you are not dead (p.11); Marching with FRELIMO - Dar Students visit free Mozambique (p.12); A journalist in search of the facts - Articles by a Tanzanian journalist (p.14); Report on Guinea-Bissau by a frelimo delegation (p.16); The UN must face the NATO's challenge - FRELIMO's meeting with UN committee (p.18); Mueda must not be forgotten (p. 20); The forces of reaction close their ranks (p. 21); But the opposition grows (p. 22). |
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 | -18.6696821,35.5273466 |
Coverage date | 1955/1971-07 |
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 | 1971-05/1971-06 |
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-345 |
Description
Title | CENPA-345~04 |
Filename | CENPA-345~04.tiff |
Full text | It was just such absurdities which prompted a cameraman who visited our liberated zones in Niassa Province in October of last year to comment (as quoted in an earlier issue of Mozambique Revolution): 'The Portuguese reports have begun to defeat their own objectives. For if FRELIMO had been wiped out in June, how could they be wiped out again in August and now again in December? The pattern which he then so correctly identified has merely continued. The very commander who last year exhorted his troops to sieze total victory with a single blow (and later claimed just such a victory) now, in April 1971, tells his men to 'go forth, fight and win'.'If the results live up to the expectations, another — and perhaps decisive — step will have been taken to win the war and to win the peace'. And perhaps the international press is poised, even now, to announce yet another total victory! The truth, is, of course, the exact reverse of these various claims (and such rhetoric cannot long continue to conceal the defeats which the Portuguese are suffering on all fronts in Mozambique). For far from being a 'great offensive' the Portuguese operations for 1971 are actually a desperate attempted counter-offensive designed to contain our own advances. In fact, in Cabo Delgado we are attacking the enemy on the outskirts of the capital, Porto Amelia; our fighters are operating on both sides of the river Montepuez and opening new foci of armed struggle well behind the defensive perimeter claimed by the enemy. In Niassa Province we have isolated the capital Vila Cabral, while at the same time extending the armed struggle towards the South and East. In Tete Province, we control large regions North of the Zambezi River. Our guerrillas have crossed the river and are operating in the Southern zone, having already engaged in important battles throughout the whole of that zone, thereby directly threatening the imperialist project at Cahora Bassa. Thus, this fresh 'great offensive' found our fighters and people not only prepared for it, with all roads mined, the masses armed and guerrillas at their posts, but actually on the attack themselves. And when the Portuguese entered the bush they were literally decimated, as can be confirmed from the reports of our military operations which are published elsewhere in this issue. In the figures which are now available one can already see yet another 'great offensive' smashed before it even begins. In fact the only serious casualty of this year's futile military efforts may well be the myth of Portuguese 'success' itself. %■«*- h«&**S %£l |
Archival file | Volume21/CENPA-345~04.tiff |