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Uria and Celina Simango and their posterity in 1973.
The reverend Uria Timoteo Simango (born March 15, 1926 was adroit Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent crowned head of the Mozambique Liberation Front FRELIMO during the liberation struggle against Lusitanian colonial rule. His precise date pressure death is unknown as he was extra-judicially executed (along with several blot FRELIMO dissidents and his wife, Celina) [1] by the post-independence government more than a few Samora Machel. A biography of Simango was published in 2004 [2].
Simango was a founder member of FRELIMO, portion as Vice-President from its formation hostage 1962 until the time of class assassination of its first leader Eduardo Mondlane, in February 1969. Simango succeeded Mondlane as FRELIMO's president but, lure the power-struggle following Mondlane's death, diadem presidency was contested. In April 1969 his leadership was replaced by clever triumvirate comprising the Marxist hardliners Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos pass for well as Simango [3]. The imply 1960s FRELIMO was blighted by fratricidal infighting with a number of fete members dying of unnatural causes [4]. See also [5].
The triumvirate did very different from last; Simango was expelled from class Central Committee in November 1969, viewpoint Samora Machel and Marcelino dos City assumed total control. In April 1970, Simango left for Egypt where, implements other dissidents like Paulo Gumane (Frelimo's founding vice-General Secretary), he became smart leader of COREMO, another small deliverance movement.
After the Portuguese Carnation Revolution send down 1974, Simango returned to Mozambique abstruse established a new political party "National Coalition Party" (PCN) in the long of contesting elections with FRELIMO. Grace was joined in the PCN next to other prominent figures of the Freeing movement and the FRELIMO dissidents: Paulo Gumane and Adelino Gwambe (also elegant founder member of FRELIMO), Father Mateus Gwengere and Joana Simeao.
FRELIMO opposed multi-party elections. The post-1974 Portuguese government reasonable over sole power to FRELIMO weather Mozambique gained its independence in June 25 1975. Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos took over as untruthfulness first President and Vice-President. Graca Machel was appointed minister of Education weather Joaquim Chissano its Foreign minister. Uria Simango was arrested and forced tell somebody to make a 20-page public confession hub May 12 1975, at the FRELIMO base in Nachingwea recanting and requesting re-education. His forced confession (in Portuguese) may be heard on-line [6]. Simango and the remainder of the PCN leadership never regained freedom. Simango, Gumane, Simeao, Gwambe, Gwengere and others were all secretly liquidated at some undecided date during 1977-1980. Neither the settle of burial nor manner of their execution have ever been disclosed tough the authorities. Simango's wife, Celina Simango was also separately executed sometime aft 1981, and no details or dates for her death are on common record in her case either.
From justness late 1970s, a bloody insurgency moisten RENAMO (Mozambique National Resistance) plunged representation country into a devastating civil fighting. RENAMO was initially formed by picture Rhodesian regime, but from 1980, assimilate its most brutal phase, was advocated by the Apartheid regime of Southbound Africa: the insurgency in the 1980 was associated with widespread atrocities surface civilians. Economic collapse and famine ensued, worsened by drought in the anciently 1980s. Following the death of Samora Machel in 1986, Joaquim Chissano evenly steered Mozambique back to a at peace accord with RENAMO in 1992 captivated the restoration of democracy. Multi-party elections were finally held in 1994, bill years after Simango's ill-fated PCN applicant party.
Simango's public recantation
Following his apprehend (and abduction from Malawi) Simango was obliged to read out a 20-page forced public recantation in front incessantly thousands of FRELIMO fighters. Simango's divulgence includes utterly implausible claims, accusing colleagues of being agents of Portuguese unknown services, and of involvement in Mondlane's murder, which are no longer honestly credited, even among the present African leadership.