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FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA AFRICANA PARA A INDEPENDÊNCIA NACIONAL DAS COLÓNIAS PORTUGUESAS
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FRONT REVOLUTIONNAIRE AFRICAIN POUR L’INDEPENDANCE NATIONALE DES COLONIES PORTUGAISES

AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY FRONT FOR THE NATIONAL INDEPENCENCE OF THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES
 
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Dear FRIENDS:

In the Portuguese colonies - ‘the African zone of the silence’ - 11 million human being are living like serfs in their own countries, condemned to a way of life which is even worse than that which Nazism wished to impose on Europeans. They are deprived of even the most basic human rights. In spite of this, the Africans are organizing themselves and fighting Portuguese colonialism.

In Luanda (Angola-West Africa) the Fascist colonial tribunal, presided over by a settler, is now ‘judging’ 51 Africans and 6 Europeans accused of belonging to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, one of the nationalist clandestine organisations. The law provides penalties of up to 25 years in prison, and the Africans know from bitter experience just what the ‘laws’ of Portuguese Fascist colonialism mean.

World public opinion, democratic peoples and organisations who love Peace and Freedom, the mass communications media and honest and responsible men of all countries would not be misguided in paying careful attention to this judgement. For they must be there as the side of the Africans. Because it is really the judgment of a case between Portuguese colonialism and Humanity, in which Portugal is on trial for the crime of the exploitation, the waste, the humiliation and the partially successful attempt to destroy 11 million human beings.

GIVE YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT TO THE AFRICANS who are fighting for the right to live as Men and for the Freedom and Dignity of their Peoples!

CONDEMN Portuguese colonialism and DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE LIBERATION OF THE AFRICANS AND THE EUROPEANS ARRESTED!

SEND COMPLAINING LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS to:

Portuguese Government - Lisbon, Portugal
Government of Angola - Luanda, Angola
Tribunal of Luanda - Luanda, Angola

With best solidarity and on behalf of the steering Committee,

March 7th 1960

Abel DJASSI
(Member of the S.C.)

C/Committee of African Organisations. 200, Gower Street. NW1 EUS-2763

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