Alguém ouviu algo sobre esta imensa discussão e polémica? E factos destas "constantes atrocidades"?
Parece que alguém está a querer criar uma agenda 
Muitos familiares meus combateram no ultramar, tios, primos do meu pai, e outros familiares e amigos da família. Em Angola e Moçambique, incluindo zonas bastante activas de actividade de guerrilha, até na região do Tete. Já tive muitas conversas longas e francas come muitos deles sobre as suas exepriências. Estas "atrocidades constantes" são casos isolados, que são aproveitados, exagerados e recontados tanta vez, e fazem parte da indoctrinação pós-abrilina, servindo apenas de desculpa pela descolonização irresponsável e criminosa. Na realidade foi a única razão de ser, e objectivo comum das super-potências que osquestraram o 25 de Abril. A descoloniação imediata.
Os "colonizadores" portugueses foram rapidamente substituidos por Cubanos, Russos, RDA, etc..
Já li várias vezes o livro do Sr. Adrian Hastings, "Wiriyamu: My Lai in Mozambique", tão habilmente escrito para incendiar qualquer ser humano sensível e convenientemente editado na altura da visita de estado de Marcelo Caetano ao Reino Unido, em Julho de 1973. O alegado massacre, ocorrera em Dezembro de 1972, 8 meses antes... Porque não denunciaram este crime horrendo logo quanto possível? Razões fortes havia, e nada tinham a ver com os direitos humanos..
Para além de várias incoerências factuais, como por exemplo, afirma que o ataque a Wiriyamu for feito pela 6a. Companhia de Comandos, com Soldados europeus e africanos. Julgo que não era este o caso.. a 6a. era uma unidade de Comandos onde serviram apenas europeus.
black and white troops of the 6th Commando Group
arrived in helicopters, surrounded Wiriyamu and and entered it.
The people were lined up, men in one group, women in another.
For the most part they were then shot, but others were herded
into houses which were set on fire, while some of the children were
kicked to death and other individuals were murdered in various
atrocious ways. While the work was done by a group of soldiers,
both black and white, and white army officers were present,
some of the orders were given by DGS agents. Chico Kachavi,
in particular, was back again, and he kept on yelling 'Kill them all.
These are the orders of our chief.'
The massacre at Wiriyamu took some time. Following it, the
troops turned on other villages and hamlets round about. As to
what happened in some places we have no reports-only bodies
were found; but in the village of Chawola, where they seem to
have arrived last and time was probably running out, the people
were simply lined up in a single group, told to clap their hands,
and shot. The bodies were gathered together, covered with straw
and set alight. In this rather hasty operation several people were
only wounded and managed to get away. The troops then returned
to Tete...
..The soldiers, while they ransacked the hamlet, found a woman,
named Zostina, who was pregnant. They asked her what the sex
was of the child she was carrying. 'I don't know,' she answered.
'You'll soon know,' they said. And, at once, with their knives
they ripped her belly open, yanking out her intestines and her
womb and showing her the foetus, which was struggling convul
sively, and said 'There! Now do you know?' Then, mother and
child were consumed by the flames.
Other soldiers amused themselves by killing children, grabbing
them by the legs and bashing them against the ground or trees..
...A woman called Vaina was told to stand up. She did so, with
her little child Xanu in her arms-a nine-month-old baby. She
fell, picrced by a bullet. The child disengaged itself and sat down
next to its dead mother, crying frantically, but no one was able
to help it. A soldier stepped forward, and it seemed he was going
to comfort it. What a disillusion! Before the horrified eyes of the
people, the soldier kicked the child brutally, slashing its head
open. 'Shut up, dog!' he said. The prostrate child was no longer
crying. It was dead. The soldier turned around, his boot covered
with blood. His companions applauded him. 'Well done!' they
shouted, 'You're a brave man!' That was the start of a macabre
game of football, for his companions followed his example. And
this way, several other children died, kicked to death by the soldiers.”
As acusações do Sr. Hastings, são tão inflamatórias, que apenas podemos deduzir que era esta a sua única razão de ser. Mobilizar a opinião pública mundial contra Portugal.
Os actos de que este senhor acusa as tropas Portuguesas são tão incríveis, tão fora do modo de ser Português, tão horrendas, que nem posso acreditar nelas. A sua credibilidade para mim é nula. A falta de quaisquer provas físicas, fotografias por exemplo, também não abonam nada a seu favor. No mínimo, são um exagero propagandístico, senão mesmo mentira completa. É possível também que o Sr. Hasting foi manipulado por terceiros. Nem é difícil de imaginar como tal poderia ser conseguido.
Para mim é de enorme importância o facto de ter mencionado a presença de tropas africanas e europeias. Quem eram estas tropas? Há provas de que eram tropas Portuguesas? Fotografias, relatórios oficiais? Testemunhas? Algum índice de verdade? Num tribunal, este case seria muito fraco mesmo.
Acho que existe informação a mais aqui, muito detalhe. Como seria possível uma unidade militar cometer criems de guerra tão horrorosos, e deixar vivas testemunhas tão antenciosas aos detalhes, como o nome duma criança de 9 meses?
Por que raio haveriam de separar homens e mulheres, se o objectivo seria eliminar todos? Para que tanto sadismo? É inacreditável.
Este é um caso a ser estudado com minúcia, pois há aqui muito mistério, muita disinformação, muito boato dado como facto, relatos de terceira e quarta pessoa, que certamente seriam exagerados a cada passo.
Acima de tudo faltam provas físicas de que:
a. houve massacre de civis indefesos (e seriam mesmo civis indefesos?)
b. este massacre foi perpetrado por tropas Portuguesas;
c. se foi de facto massacre efectuado por tropas Portuguesas contra inocentes civis, foi acto isolado, ou práctica comum?
Na foto, o padre Hastings, e o Mário Soares na conferência de imprensa, a 11 de Julho de 1973.
Ora, Hastings, diz 400-500 pesoas massacradas, a cruz Vermelha disse que eram 150. Relatórios oficiais Portugueses falam em menos ainda. Diferença significativa..
Not since the My Lai atrocities came to light in 1969 had a tiny village caused such an uproar. Father Adrian Hastings, a British Catholic priest, alleged that Portuguese government troops had gone on a murderous rampage in the Portuguese Mozambique village of Wiriyamu last Dec. 16. The priest, quoting reports from Spanish missionary priests, claimed that Portuguese soldiers killed some 400 villagers suspected of sympathizing with Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front.
Then began the denials. Dr. Marcello Caetano, the Portuguese Prime Minister, who was on an official visit to London, said that his government's preliminary inquiry showed a massacre of 400 villagers "could not have taken place." A Catholic bishop in Mozambique who in published reports claimed that he had seen the dead bodies later stubbornly declined either to confirm or deny that there had been a massacre. In Lisbon, officials insisted that Wiriyamu did not even exist. Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying it was in the eastern Tete province. Reporters have been searching for it ever since, and for anyone who claims to have seen the massacre. TIME Correspondent Peter Hawthorne joined a trek last week and afterward sent this report:
The town of Tete bristles with troops, military roadblocks and armored vehicles. People are being moved out of isolated villages and relocated in protected settlements called aldeamentos, where troops and home-guard units keep Frelimo infiltrators at bay.
A 30-man army escort took us to a place called Wiliamo, about eight miles from Tete. The guide was a black army private who said he knew of the village.
He pronounced it "Wiriamu"—many Africans pronounce "l" as "r"—but wrote it "Wiliamo." It was the only place of that name that he knew in the region, he said. Of course there are villages with vaguely similar names all over the areas variously mentioned by Father Hastings, and presumably any of them could be the massacre site.
The village, perhaps ten to fifteen huts, had clearly been abandoned in a hurry. But there was no obvious sign of a firefight—no bullet marks in the tree stumps or huts. It would require nothing less than a team of forensic experts to track down any evidence of a massacre.
No Angels. "My men aren't angels or they wouldn't be good soldiers," said Major José Carvalho, who led the army escort. "But a massacre of 400? During my two years service here I've never heard of such an incident, and if I did it would be the reason for a large-scale military inquiry."
Two priests of the Spanish Burgos Fathers who earlier supported allegations of the massacre have been detained by Portuguese authorities in Lourengo Marques on unspecified charges "relating to the security of the state." Their fellow priests at the Mission of São Pedro, near Tete, will say nothing. Some Portuguese here believe it is quite possible that a massacre did occur. The secretary of the Bishop of Tete, Father Manuel Mouro, told me:
"In a climate of war anything is possible —but between the possible and the real, there may be a big difference."
Fonte: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907626,00.html
Realço o facto de Hastings menosprezar os assasinatos pela FRELIMO de chefes africanos (e suas famílias) tidos como colaboradores do regime colonial.
Já agora porque não fala igualmente dos muitos massacres organizados pelos movimentos ditos de "libertação" nos 3 teatros de guerra? Esses sim, foram planificados, e são portanto crimes premeditados e não acidentais como Wiriamu..
