In 1959 the Portuguese consul in Dar es Salaam received a written request for the collective return of Makonde migrants to northern Mozambique. This request was then made in person by leaders of mutual help associations to the administrator of the small town of Mueda, opening an incident that would culminate in the infamous massacre of 16 June 1960. The origins of that event have been buried both by the Portuguese will to deny the violence and by the heroic narrative propagated by the national liberation movement. This article delves into the records that colonial intelligence amassed around the rise of subversion in the Makonde precinct. Its objective is to produce a more complex rendering of the trajectory that led from the request itself to violent repression. Intelligence reports produced in the heat of events offer an opportunity to open up the narrative of the Mueda event, to look at it not as the starting point of a teleology of national liberation but as a moment of uncertainty and possibility generated by tentative plans for a federation of independent east African states and by the racial tensions inherent in the transition to Tanganyikan independence, and influenced in its unfolding by individual initiative, ambition, leadership conflicts, adventurism, cowardice and chance.

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穆达大屠杀的重演：葡萄牙殖民地情报的“回归实质”

1959年，葡萄牙驻达累斯萨拉姆领事收到书面要求，要求马孔德移民集体返回莫桑比克北部。然后，互助协会的负责人亲自向Mueda小镇的管理者亲自提出了这一要求，引发了一场事件，最终导致1960年6月16日臭名昭著的屠杀。该事件的起源已被葡萄牙人埋葬。反对民族解放运动传播的暴力和英雄主义叙事的意愿。本文深入研究了在马孔德地区颠覆活动兴起时积累的殖民情报的记录。它的目标是对轨迹进行更复杂的渲染，从请求本身到暴力镇压。