Uria Simango

Uria Simango
Simango (far right) with fellow captive Paulo Gumane and captors Marcelino dos Santos Samora Machel on 11 May 1975. Simango and Gumane were quietly executed sometime over the next 5 years.
Born
Uria Timoteo Simango

(1926-03-15)15 March 1926
Mozambique
Diedc. October 1979 (aged 52–53)[1]
Cause of deathExtrajudicial execution
Political partyNational Coalition Party (1974- )
FRELIMO (1962-1970)
MovementMozambique Liberation
OpponentFRELIMO (after 1970)
Criminal chargesTreason
Criminal penaltyExecution
SpouseCelina

Uria Timoteo Simango (15 March 1926 - c. October 1979)[1] was a Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. His precise date of death is unknown as he was extrajudicially executed along with several other FRELIMO dissidents and his wife, Celina[2] by the post-independence government of Samora Machel.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference rothwell was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mozambique: the tortuous road to democracy by J. Cabrita, Macmillan, 2001. ISBN 9780333920015