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NOVEMBER 22, 1970 marked another attempt by external forces to destroy the people of Africa. On this day, Portuguese-led mercenary forces launched an attack upon Guinea. Radio Conakry reports: "This is the critical moment for us. The Portuguese have come to attack us. The enemy must be crushed and punished...
Suburban Targets. Before the landing party's members were killed, captured or driven off by Touré's Chinese-trained "people's militia," they headed toward an expensive suburb of Conakry and raided the headquarters of PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...
...alert: "Leave your books and get your arms, leave your kitchen pots and get your arms, leave your plows and get your arms." The President reportedly was being assisted in directing the battle by Kwame Nkrumah, who was deposed as President of Ghana in 1966 and has since become Guinea's best-known exile-in-residence...
...were captured. Three Europeans -including a five-year-old Yugoslav girl -were killed in the fighting, which went on for some 40 hours in the capital. Lisbon denied any Portuguese connection. In a similar episode, however, Portuguese aircraft recently bombed Senegalese border villages from which guerrillas had been attacking Guinea-Bissau (the attacks quickly ceased...
...recalled a Touré maxim from the early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs...