FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA AFRICANA PARA A INDEPENDÊNCIA
NACIONAL DAS COLÓNIAS PORTUGUESAS
c/o Committee of African Organisations,
200 Gower Street,
London N.W.I.
NEWS FROM ANGOLA
The trial of 57 Angolan leaders is being held in the secret Military Court of Luanda.
During June 52 Angolans, mostly Civil Servants and employees of Benguela Railways, were arrested in Lobito, Luanda; Malange, Benguela and Dalatando, that is, in Central Angola. There are also reports of arrests in other parts of Angola.
Dr. Agostinho Neto, a well-known Angolan and doctor, was arrested on 8th June. He was flogged by the Chief of Portuguese Gestapo in Angola, and by his assistant, in front of his family and neighbours. Dr. Neto had already been in jail in Portugal for two years, from 1954 to 1956.
The Reverend Father Joaquin Pinto de Andrade, Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Luanda, and the only Angolan graduate in technology at the University of Rome, was arrested on 28th June and deported to Portugal on the 1st July.
The police have been raiding African houses in and around Luanda and other towns of Angola, and smashing every single radio act that was found on the head of its owner, and spreading terror in African villages by indiscriminate beating and shooting in the air.
Further military reinforcement has been sent from Portugal: one battalion and two companies. About 2,000 more troops are expected soon from Portugal. Same loyal African and settlers have been armed.
July, 1960.
«News from Angola» sobre prisão dos 57 angolanos do Processo dos 50 (Londres, Julho 1960, da FRAIN c/o Committee of African Organisations.