Word: frelimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week had begun promisingly. Intermediate talks between representatives of Lisbon and liberation leaders from Portuguese Guinea had ended on a cordial note in London. During initial peace contacts in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, Foreign Minister Mario Scares (see box) had emotionally embraced Samora Machel, president of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Tanzania, Zaire and several other African states that have long aided anti-Portuguese guerrillas were quietly helping Lisbon toward a solution...
...offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique, including an elderly white man whom they dragged from his farmhouse, and mined a train. Said Frelimo Leader Samora Machel...
...majority seem pleased at the pronouncements from Portugal; yet there is little open ebullience. The most emotional scene was at the grim Machava prison on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques. The first 554 of an estimated 12,000 prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) were set free in a moving ceremony on May Day. A large crowd, including many whites, gathered to embrace the released prisoners, most of whom admitted to reporters that they had been FRELIMO sympathizers. Said Colonel António Rebelo, new head of the secret police...
...debilitating guerrilla war continues in the northern half of the country, and the irregulars of FRELIMO seep steadily southward into areas where most of the white population of 220,000 out of a total of 8 million is concentrated. Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...
...Mozambique (pop. 8,000,000), the forces of Frelimo (for Mozambique Liberation Front) have tied down 60,000 Portuguese troops in the northern provinces. In the past two months three top Frelimo commanders have defected to the Portuguese, and this month the colonial authorities felt secure enough to release 400 Frelimo detainees as "rehabilitated." The Portuguese also ordered their commanders to avoid a repetition of incidents like last year's Wiriyamu massacre, in which Portuguese soldiers killed an estimated 60 villagers accused of being Frelimo sympathizers...