UN General Assembly
1973

101. Since the last session, Africa has witnessed two sad events. Mr. Amilcar Cabral, President of the Partido Africano de Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde, was brutally assassinated on 20 January 1973 by the agents of Portuguese colonialism. The world cannot but deeply mourn the tragic death of that great son of Africa. 102. In Mozambique, where Portugal still maintains its colonialist policies, the Portuguese Fascist forces brutally murdered 400 innocent men, women and children late last year at the village of Wiriyamu. The Wiriyamu massacre will indeed go down in history with Sharpeville and My Lai as epitomizing the bestiality and savagery of fascism, colonialism and imperialism. These barbarities are in the vile tradition of generations of colonialists who have terrorized and subjugated the people of Africa. It would be outrageous for this Assembly to let those heinous acts by Portugal pass uncondemned.