ACCUSED OF USING GAS IN ANGOLA
The Angolan Press and Information service [API] reported June 8 that the Portuguese forces of repression in Angola used gas against the freedom fighters at Dembos, not far from Bula Atumba, and. also in an area eighty kilometers south of Golungo Alto.
The gas was used in retaliation for the heavy losses suffered by fascist dictator Salazar's troops in the mountains and forests of Dembos.
Several dozen peasants were poisoned by the gas, the API reports,
This is not the first time the Portuguese colonialists have resorted to the use of gas but it is the first time they have used it in such large quantities and with such heavy consequences,
The Revolutionary Government of Angola in Exile [GRAE] informed-the International Red Cross and appealed to world public opinion against this inhuman use of Nazi methods. It asked that vigorous protests’ be lodged against the Portuguese government.
The API also reported that Portuguese planes bombed and burned the villages of Mpala, Lufico, Lukossa and Miezi in the first part of June, causing many casualties,
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