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Liberation movements have been fighting Government forces in the Portuguese dominated territories in African for a decade and more. In the words of the Angolan Leader, Agostinho Neto, they are working "to free and modernize our peoples by a dual revolution-against their traditional structure which can no longer serve them and against colonial rule". The United Nations has recognized the liberation movements as "the authentic representatives" of their peoples. The struggle in Mozambique is spearheaded by Frelimo (Frente de Liberacao de Mocambique) the Mozambique Liberation Front which claims control over more than a quarter of the country.

Forest wreath for a fallen comrade-in-arms. [Exact date unknown]

The country will become independent from Spain on Saturday, 12 October, 1968. Elections for the Presidency, the Assembly and the two Provincial Councils of the new Republic were held on 22 September, followed by a run-off election for the Presidency on 29 September, all of which were supervised by a UN Mission.
Women and children await the arrival of one of the Presidential candidates during the election campaign in Equatorial Guinea.

Sir Jonh MacPherson of the U.K., Chairman of the UN Visiting Mission, is shown in this photo being greeted by a Kukukuku warrior chief upon arrival at Menyamya airport in the Morobe District. [April 1956]

The UN Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in the Pacific departed from the UN Headquarters on 4 February to investigate and report on the steps taken in the territories towards the realization of the objectives set forth in Article 76b of the Charter. The Visiting Mission made a tour of New Guinea from 15 March to 18 April.

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Headline FALINTIL Soldiers Reburied for 10th Anniversary of Timorese Independence

Caption Description Deceased soldiers of the Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste (FALINTIL), the armed resistance movement for East Timorese independence, are reburied at the Hero's Cemetery in Metinaro. The re-burial was planned in honour of the10th anniversary of the 1999 UN-organized Popular Consultation, a landmark referendum which granted Timor-Leste its independence.

Unique Identifier UN7446148

NICA ID 407802

Production Date 08/29/2009 10:35:00 AM

Country Timor-Leste

Credit UN Photo/Martine Perret

File size 2.44 MB