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Combatente * 8 -      September g» 12§Ii
THE POLICY OF AGGRESSION OF PORTUGAL
At the United Nations - Security Council - the Government of the Republic of Senegal has accused the colonial Government of Portugal by have*
ing once more violated its sovereignity.
Following is the text of the letter addressed to the president of
the Security Council by the Senegalese Permanent Representative at the
UN, Mr. Ousman Soce Diop*  The letter is a translation from the French
Newspaper "Le Courier dfAfrica" of September 14,1967.
"Instructed by my Government, I have the honour to inform you that
on 5th August I967. some Portuguese elements from Guinea (Bissau), heavily armed with machine-guns and heavy weapons, infiltrated through the forest of the Santiabamanjack village and they stationed into Senegalese
territory where they gave themselves to plunder, looting and destruction.
They burnt seven buildings, plantations, and rice fields and destroyed or
plundered a number of Senegalese national belongings*  The Government of
the Republic of Senegal urged that the text of this letter bo informed to
the members of the Security Council but without the latter convening any
emergence meeting"*
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In Tanzania, the Government claimed recently by Radio that the
Portuguese military air-force has again violated the Tanzanian air-space,
30 miles inside the Republic, dropping leaflets in which the colonial Government of Portugal invites all Mozambican refugees to go back to their
country.  The pamphlets claim that the colonial Government has built up
villages for the people and that peace reigns throughout the country*
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Here we can clearly see the phoney policy of Portugal aiming at
misleading the outside world while from within she is squeezing the population living there*   This policy of "peace reigns" is as ridiculous as
that of good neighbourliness*  Assisted by co-partners of NATO club and
incited by the segregationist Government of South Africa, Portugal has
extended war to the independent African States which share borders with
her colonies.
The foolish claim that the neighbouring African States are harbouring "territorists" is a ludicrous and nonsensical claim that cannot
help her to maintain her odious and bogus colonial policy in Africa.  She
cannot blame the neighbours for the success of the liberation forces*  The
African States will make no bones about supporting openly their brothers
who are bound to live as slaves of the White men in his own country*
Portugal has for so many times accused the African States of giving help and shelter to the Nationalists, but she forgets that African
help is only on a humanitarian basis since they have no factories of war