Testimony of an ex-FRELIMO (FPLM) soldier who participated in this massacre:
The tranquility of village life in Northern Mozambique was shattered by the screaming and abuse shouted by seventy-five Frelimo troops as they swept through the rows of mud-and-thatch huts, herding all the inhabitants towards the clearing in the centre of the kraal. Those villagers who were too old or sick to walk by themselves were stabbed to death with bayonets.
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Volume 2 1992
“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?” Psalm 2:1 Mankind is in rebellion to God. Mankind is seeking “independence from our Creator; “liberation” from God; “freedom” from God’s laws. “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:3 This war against God takes many forms: ISLAMIC PERSECUTION Islamic mobs have regularly burnt down churches and murdered Christians in Nigeria and Sudan. In Uganda, hundreds of thousands of Christians were killed under the persecution of Muslim dictator Idi Amin in the 1970’s. In the Sudan, nearly a million people (most of them Christians) have died since 1956 in the ongoing vicious civil war between the Muslim Arab north and the Christian Black south. Volume 1 1993
While many Christians in the West sit back in comfort and assume that all persecution of the Church has ended, almost a thousand believers die as martyrs for Christ - every day. While many have presumptuously announced a new era of peace, churches continue to be burnt to the ground in Nigeria, Christians are executed in Pakistan and crucified in Sudan. To those of us involved in serving the suffering Churches and speaking up for the persecuted it is inexplicable that most of the Christian publications, programmes and prayer meetings ignore the reality of the war being waged against God and His people. Volume 4 1994
Ever since the launching of Frontline Fellowship over 12 years ago we have received relentless criticism. When Marxist Mozambique was closed to missionaries, had banned the Bible and forbad evangelism, Frontline Fellowship missionaries slipped into war-torn Mozambique. We smuggled in tons of Bibles and conducted widespread literature and film evangelism in the towns, villages and even military bases. For this we were accused by friends, family and fellow church members of being “irresponsible”, “reckless", “foolhardy”,“stupid”, and of “breaking the law"! Testimony of an ex-FRELIMO (FPLM) soldier who participated in this massacre:
The tranquility of village life in Northern Mozambique was shattered by the screaming and abuse shouted by seventy-five Frelimo troops as they swept through the rows of mud-and-thatch huts, herding all the inhabitants towards the clearing in the centre of the kraal. Those villagers who were too old or sick to walk by themselves were stabbed to death with bayonets. About twelve women were tied to stakes. Then, while their relatives and neighbours were forced to watch, paraffin (kerosene) was poured over them and they were set ablaze. A village elder was tied to a tree and his skin peeled from his body with pliers. Then he had salt water poured over him. One tribesman who dared to voice his outrage had his eyes gouged out with a sharp stick. To further intimidate the people, the Marxist troops took this, now blind, man's son and cut his lips, ears and nose off. His mother was then forced to eat these amputated parts of her son’s body. Other families were later forced to dig their own graves which the communists then machine-gunned them into. Volume 2 1988
Testimony of Professor Gunnar Hasselblatt, Director of the Ethiopian Department of the Protestant Berlin Mission, who, after six years of missionary work in ETHIOPIA, has reported: “33-Million Ethiopian farmers (out of a total population of 42-million) were expelled from their villages under the Marxist forced relocations policy, and crammed into heavily-guarded state settlements. There they were forced to work for the government under a socialist policy that forbade both private ownership and free enterprise. This slavery brought about the crop failure, and the resultant man-made famine will probably continue into eternity. Volume 1 1995
When the commemorative services for the victims of the Nazi holocaust were held, I heard numerous people declaring that we must never forget those who died in Auschwitz. But we have. Some people declared 1995 to be the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. But it wasn’t. During my last visit to Poland, I was told that 1945 did not mark the end of the atrocities at Auschwitz. “The Russians didn’t close down Auschwitz - they filled it with their enemies. The Germans ran Auschwitz for 5 years. The Russians ran Auschwitz for 10 years!” I was astonished but the Polish people assured me that the communists had continued to fill Auschwitz with dissidents, “reactionaries”, “counter-revolutionaries”, “black-marketers”, and other perceived enemies of the state from 1945 to 1955. “Most of the people who died in Auschwitz were Christians!” The Principal of a Bible College told me that they all saw the chimneys belching smoke from cremations all day long for year after year, until Stalin’s death in 1955. “Those ovens kept working overtime under the Communists.” Isn’t it time that we gave due respect to the memories of all the victims of Auschwitz - both Jewish and Christian? It seems to be hypocritical to describe 1945 as the year of liberation for Auschwitz. In fact, for Eastern Europe, 1945 marked only the exchanging of Nazi oppression for communist oppression. Both National Socialism (Nazi-ism) and International Socialism (Communism) are essentially the same. They share a common ideological foundation in evolutionism and humanism. It is inexplicable why Marxism has become so much more socially acceptable than Nazi-ism. Both are vicious totalitarian systems of centralised control. It is time for us to also honour the memory of those 35 million victims of the communist holocaust under Stalin, the over 60 million Chinese victims of the Communist holocaust under Mao Tse Tung, the 114 million Armenian Christians massacred in the Turkish holocaust of 1915, the 3 million Cambodians wiped out by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, the 14 million Tutsi Christians hacked to death in the Hutu holocaust of Rwanda and the 55 million innocent babies killed every year, by abortions, worldwide. Are we being honest when we say at holocaust memorial services: “We will never forget”? Most have never even given a thought to the victims of the hidden holocausts of Communists, or the ongoing holocaust of abortion. How can we say ‘Never Again!” if we are standing idly by while Christians are being massacred in Sudan and babies are being dismembered, poisoned and torn from their mother’s womb? When we realise that the holocaust was not confined to one geographic area and not limited to a mere 5 years, then it is a rebuke to our inactivity. When we admit that the holocaust didn’t end 50 years ago, but is continuing to this day, it challenges our comfortable complacency. Lives are at stake. Future generations will hold us accountable. Peter Hammond Volume 2 1988
Testimony of Professor Gunnar Hasselblatt, Director of the Ethiopian Department of the Protestant Berlin Mission, who, after six years of missionary work in ETHIOPIA, has reported: “33-Million Ethiopian farmers (out of a total population of 42-million) were expelled from their villages under the Marxist forced relocations policy, and crammed into heavily-guarded state settlements. There they were forced to work for the government under a socialist policy that forbade both private ownership and free enterprise. This slavery brought about the crop failure, and the resultant man-made famine will probably continue into eternity. “It is tragic that some relief agencies co-operated with the communist government and thus supported this immense destruction. World opinion has a false image of the situation in Ethiopia because of the inadequate information provided by the relief organisations. “The hunger for justice in Ethiopia is much greater than the hunger for bread. There are over 100 000 prisoners of conscience in Ethiopia. Some pastors have been in jail since 1975. And many hundreds of churches have been forcibly closed by the Marxists.” Volume 2 1988
Testimony of Peter Ighofose, a 52-year-old Nigerian businessman, who spent four months in jail in Mozambique: “Cadeia Central Prison was built in colonial times to hold a maximum of 500 prisoners. Now, under the Marxist Frelimo there are 8 000 prisoners incarcerated there. My cell had 400 — many dying from malnutrition and torture, and many had gone insane. Frelimo prison officials force women prisoners and youths to submit to sexual perversions with guards and the police. The guards also operate a slave labour system and sell prison food to outsiders.” Volume 2 1992
“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?” Psalm 2:1 Mankind is in rebellion to God. Mankind is seeking “independence from our Creator; “liberation” from God; “freedom” from God’s laws. “Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:3 This war against God takes many forms: |
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