SENEGAL: FREEDOM FIGHTERS RETURN PORTUGUESE PRISONERS

Record ID: 375943

  • Title: SENEGAL: FREEDOM FIGHTERS RETURN PORTUGUESE PRISONERS
  • Date: 21st December 1968
  • Summary: HANDING OVER CEREMONY. Initials TS/VS/BHH/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th January 1969 13:00
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  • Location: DAKAR, SENEGAL.
  • Country: Senegal
  • Reuters ID: LVA4A90I28VWIOPK8TS889WXGWZM
  • Story Text: THE LEADER OF AN AFRICAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA ON THURSDAY HANDED OVER TO RED CROSS OFFICIALS THREE MEN SAID TO BE PORTUGUESE PRISONERS CAPTURED BY GUERRILLAS. THE MEN WERE HANDED OVER BY AMILCAR CABRAL, CHAIRMAN OF THE "AFRICAN PARTY FOR INDEPENDENCE IN GUINEA AND CAPE VERDE ISLANDS" (PAIGC).

    THE PRISONERS WERE HANDED OVER TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DELEGATE-GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS, MR. GEORGES HOFFMAN.

    THE SAME DAY THE GUERRILLA PARTY ANNOUNCED THAT THERE HAD BEEN 11 ATTACKS ON LAND AND FOUR ON PORTUGUESE BOATS TO DATE THIS MONTH, AND LAST MONTH SEVERAL DOZEN PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED BY FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF THE PARTY. THE CLAIM WAS LATER DENIED BY THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT.
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