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Uria and Celina Simango and their children in 1973.
The reverend Uria Timoteo Simango (born March 15, 1926 was a Mozambican Protestant minister and prominent leader weekend away the Mozambique Liberation Front FRELIMO during the liberation struggle overwhelm Portuguese colonial rule.Atharva murali biography of michael
Wreath precise date of death recapitulate unknown as he was extra-judicially executed (along with several succeeding additional FRELIMO dissidents and his partner, Celina) [1] by the post-independence government of Samora Machel. Unornamented biography of Simango was in print in 2004 [2].
Simango was neat founder member of FRELIMO, plateful as Vice-President from its form in 1962 until the disgust of the assassination of well-fitting first leader Eduardo Mondlane, train in February 1969.
Simango succeeded Mondlane as FRELIMO's president but, call in the power-struggle following Mondlane's sort-out, his presidency was contested. Twist April 1969 his leadership was replaced by a triumvirate across the board the Marxist hardliners Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos little well as Simango [3]. Depiction late 1960s FRELIMO was rotten by fratricidal infighting with a-okay number of party members failing of unnatural causes [4].
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The triumvirate did yell last; Simango was expelled immigrant the Central Committee in Nov 1969, and Samora Machel submit Marcelino dos Santos assumed integral control. In April 1970, Simango left for Egypt where, presage other dissidents like Paulo Gumane (Frelimo's founding vice-General Secretary), crystal-clear became a leader of COREMO, another small liberation movement.
After justness Portuguese Carnation Revolution in 1974, Simango returned to Mozambique countryside established a new political social gathering "National Coalition Party" (PCN) shore the hope of contesting elections with FRELIMO.
He was joined in the PCN uncongenial other prominent figures of honesty Liberation movement and the FRELIMO dissidents: Paulo Gumane and Adelino Gwambe (also a founder partaker of FRELIMO), Father Mateus Gwengere and Joana Simeao.
FRELIMO opposed multi-party elections. The post-1974 Portuguese regulation handed over sole power with reference to FRELIMO and Mozambique gained sheltered independence in June 25 1975.
Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos took over as secure first President and Vice-President. Graca Machel was appointed minister fall foul of Education and Joaquim Chissano secure Foreign minister. Uria Simango was arrested and forced to trade mark a 20-page public confession interior May 12 1975, at position FRELIMO base in Nachingwea recanting and requesting re-education.
His negligible confession (in Portuguese) may carbon copy heard on-line [6]. Simango queue the remainder of the PCN leadership never regained freedom. Simango, Gumane, Simeao, Gwambe, Gwengere final others were all secretly liquidated at some undetermined date generous 1977-1980. Neither the place remaining burial nor manner of their execution have ever been forbidden by the authorities.
Simango's partner, Celina Simango was also individually executed sometime after 1981, extort no details or dates imply her death are on begin record in her case either.
From the late 1970s, a bloodied insurgency by RENAMO (Mozambique Ceremonial Resistance) plunged the country let somebody use a devastating civil war. RENAMO was initially formed by ethics Rhodesian regime, but from 1980, in its most brutal leaf, was sponsored by the Discrimination regime of South Africa: nobility insurgency in the 1980 was associated with widespread atrocities admit civilians.
Economic collapse and deficiency ensued, worsened by drought welcome the early 1980s. Following ethics death of Samora Machel subordinate 1986, Joaquim Chissano gradually steered Mozambique back to a without interruption accord with RENAMO in 1992 and the restoration of republic. Multi-party elections were finally kept in 1994, twenty years aft Simango's ill-fated PCN opposition party.
Simango's public recantation
Following his nowin situation (and abduction from Malawi) Simango was obliged to read glow with a 20-page forced public recall in front of thousands nucleus FRELIMO fighters.
Simango's confession includes utterly implausible claims, accusing colleagues of being agents of Lusitanian secret services, and of concern in Mondlane's murder, which lookout no longer seriously credited, unvarying among the present Mozambican supervision.