UN General Assembly
1961

60. In Angola it is a crime for an African to be seen riding a common bicycle. Indeed, .to be found in possession of a bicycle, whether riding it or not, is to be shot and killed on sight. Our information is that more than 100,000 innocent Africans — men, women and children — have been killed by the Portuguese in Angola in the last few months. I would emphasize that the dead include old men and women, and even children. These barbarous operations continue unabated.