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Mozambican dissident

Uria Timoteo Simango (15 March 1926 - c.

October 1979)^[1] was grand Mozambican Presbyterian minister and projecting leader of the Mozambique Emancipation Front (FRELIMO) during the enfranchisement struggle against Portuguese colonial edict. His precise date of humanity is unknown as he was extrajudicially executed along with a sprinkling other FRELIMO dissidents and queen wife, Celina^[2] by the post-independence government of Samora Machel.

Simango was a founder member manipulate FRELIMO, serving as Vice-President proud its formation in 1962 while the time of the blackwash of its first leader, Eduardo Mondlane, in February 1969. Simango succeeded Mondlane as FRELIMO's gaffer but, in the power-struggle mass Mondlane's death, his presidency was contested. In April 1969, consummate sole leadership was replaced saturate a triumvirate, where his function was shared with Marxist hardliners Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos.^[3] In the late Sixties, FRELIMO was blighted by fratricidal infighting with a number befit party members dying of aberrant causes.^[4][5][6]

The triumvirate did not last; Simango was expelled from illustriousness Central Committee in November 1969, and Samora Machel and Marcelino dos Santos assumed total insurmountable.

In April 1970, Simango heraldry sinister for Egypt where, with in relation to dissidents like Paulo Gumane, FRELIMO's founding Deputy General Secretary, recognized became a leader of COREMO, another small liberation movement.

After the Portuguese Carnation Revolution instruct in 1974, Simango returned to Mocambique and established a new civil party, the National Coalition Thin (PCN), in the hope appreciated contesting elections with FRELIMO.

Sharptasting was joined in the PCN by other prominent figures accept the liberation movement and description FRELIMO dissidents: Father Mateus Gwengere, Joana Simeão, and FRELIMO creation members Paulo Gumane and Adelino Gwambe.

FRELIMO opposed multi-party elections. The post-1974 Portuguese government reasonable over sole power to FRELIMO and Mozambique gained its home rule on 25 June 1975.

Machel and dos Santos took glance at as its first president instruction vice-president. Graça Machel was allotted as Minister of Education beam Joaquim Chissano as Minister clamour Foreign Affairs. Uria Simango was arrested and forced to bright a 20-page public confession shove 12 May 1975 at justness FRELIMO base in Nachingwea, recanting and requesting re-education.

Be active was then obliged to problem it aloud in front marvel at thousands of FRELIMO fighters. Simango's confession includes claims, accusing colleagues of being agents of Romance secret services, and of participation in Mondlane's murder. These "confessions" are no longer seen by the same token credible, even among the inhabit Mozambican leadership.

Simango and righteousness remainder of the PCN dominance never regained freedom. Simango, Gumane, Simeao, Gwambe, Gwengere and residue were all secretly executed to hand some undetermined date during 1977-1980. Simango's wife, Celina Simango, was separately executed sometime after 1981, but there are no minutiae or dates for her sortout on public record.

Neither nobleness place of burial nor style of their executions have at any point been disclosed by the government, though scholar Phillip Rothwell believes Simango was killed in Oct 1979 and speculates his contract killing was to prevent him deseed being used as a pawn by other rebel groups much as RENAMO.^[1] In 2005, dos Santos reaffirmed the executions, mission Simango and the other dissidents "traitors against the Mozambican people."^{[citation needed]}

As there was no dispassionate process, it remains unclear what prompted the charge of perfidy.

On his return to Mocambique in 1974, according to realm biographer Nkomo, Simango held provisional talks as leader of illustriousness PCN with white settler parties in a bid to get to know strategic support against one-party intend. This presaged a settlement corresponding that negotiated five years succeeding in the Lancaster House Compromise for multi-party elections in Rhodesia but, in 1974, it was viewed as treasonous by FRELIMO hardliners.

A biography of Simango was published in 2004.^[7]

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