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roe C.. ACIL me Aanica On. arrows Te A Wik +10 Fae bean ee eal ad The Council of African Organisations is horrified by the brutal and cowardly assassination of balcolm I the militant leader in the struggle against American imperialiag, oppression and racialiaa, During Halcolm I's visit to our headquarters in London asa guest of our Ist Congress, from 6 - 13 February, we were able to get an unprejuticed and clear understanding of both the man andi his policy. He won over many in his audience, amongst whom were his most incisive critica. He dispelled much of their lack of symoathy created by a biased press amd based on unfamiliarity with hie real aims, He was certainly no rabble—-rousing demagogue, but possessed a composure and clear-headedness which was highly incompatible with the image of a fanatic that has been and is being sok ae fad projected by his detractors, He wis neither leader nor orophet of & ~ lunatic fringe. He was staggeringly honest and sincere in his conviction, i This great nationalist leader never oreached one thing and practised 2 ancther. His greatest crime seems to have been his dogged and incorruptible sincerity. Kalcolm I regarded the use of force in self-defence wheres violence is unleashed againet the Negro people's demands for freedom and for mman rights as justifiable only because the hand that prevented them had been unamenable to negotiation and peaceful dewanis. He had little faith in those sho, while breaking hie head with a cuigel, exhorted him to be passiveE. halcolm I aimed essentially at the forging of stronger links between Negroes in america, Africans and 411 oppressed peoples in Asia and Latin america, and that is precisely why he was murdered. Ta mourning this great loss we deplore this criminal attempt at sabotage of the struggles of the oppressed peoples by trying to decacitate the national liberation movement by murdering its leaders. For the butchers of I® Félix-Roland Koumid and Patrice Lummba are the vary same monsters nto have & murdered walcols X in cold blvod. We conmiemn this ignomincus act which is FF. another futile phase in the policy of the imperialists to keep the majority of mankind in a subordinate status and thereby maintain their precarious and acribund domination. , 7 Eis assassins hired by U3 imporialis Burdered him because he consciously exposed this sonster sa the enemy of all peoples and particularly the people’. of african origin. We shall hold high his banner of "uniting all Afro-tmericang, in the TA, \ . . =m a %.