Church support for terrorists alleged

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33577, 4 July 1974, Page 5

Church support for terrorists alleged

I The World C ouncil of (Churches is taking a major part in terrorist activities in Rhodesia by making large financial grants to terrorist organisations, according to a newsletter on Rhodesia issued by the South African Friends’ Association.

The organisation says in the newsletter that the terrorists use every form of intimidation — murder, torture, and mutilation — to impose their will, but have failed to win either the hearts or the minds of black Rhodesians.

It says that the existing: security forces, of whom more than 50 per cent or black Rhodesians, “control the terrorist movement, which is an external affair, based on terrorist training camps and centred in Zambia."

The newsletter Says that 100 traditional chiefs and 1000 people have been murdered in Mozambique during the last two years by Frelimo terrorists for not supporting their organisation. It says that a cleric employed in the World'Council of Churches headquarters in Geneva recently said that Communism was a fair system, and “an inspiration to those suppressed.”

The terrorists represent only themselves and Communism, says the newsletter. “A recent atrocity in Rhodesia by terrorists is an example of a dividend from 'the pay-out to these organisations. An African woman, whose husband had reported

| the presence of a terrorist (gang, had her lips partially cut off by scissors, and the I rest of her. flesh pulled off by tweezers. “The policy of the World Council of Churches in calling this sort of thing ‘combating racialism’ is an affront to Christianity,” says the newsletter.