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FRELIMO supporters retaliated with bloody riots in the black shantytowns surrounding the city and, during several days, thousands of people, mostly Portuguese, were barbarously slaughtered, along with blacks who had allegedly remained loyal to their employers. The second episode of violence happened a few weeks later, on 21 October 1974, when a quarrel between Portuguese commandos and FRELIMO guerrillas in downtown Lourenço Marques gave rise to another wave of bloody riots in the black shantytown areas, with the murder of dozens of whites.
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FRELIMO candidate Armando Guebuza won with 64 % of the popular vote.
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" The term refers to the situation in which socialist FRELIMO, with Soviet backing, was forced to fight a lengthy civil war ( Mozambican Civil War ) against a counterinsurgency movement of Mozambicans named RENAMO, funded and directed by the neighboring capitalist economies of apartheid South Africa and the then Rhodesia.
The political pressure of the ideologically charged civil war, in conjunction with the excruciating need for aid and funds to finance imports, compelled FRELIMO to negotiate its first structural adjustment package ( SAP ) with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1986 ( commonly referred to as the Bretton Woods Institutions or International Financial Institutions — IFIs ).
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In fact, as early as during the transitional government it shared with Portugal, FRELIMO shattered all opposition to its rule.
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The first of such episodes was caused by an upheaval in the capital city on 7 September 1974, with the seizing of offices and transmitters of the Rádio Clube de Moçambique, in protest against the Lusaka Agreement signed by the Portuguese Provisional Government and FRELIMO, which provided for the handover of power exclusively to the nationalist movement.
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FRELIMO and black
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FRELIMO and city
In 1974, during the Portuguese Colonial War / Mozambican War of Independence the Mozambican independentist guerrilla group FRELIMO launched mortar attacks against Vila Pery ( now Chimoio ), which was an important city of Portuguese Mozambique.
FRELIMO and during
Although there were other guerrilla armies fighting the government, such as the Uganda Freedom Movement led by Andrew Kayiira, Museveni's experience gained during his time with FRELIMO enabled him to develop the NRA more effectively.
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FRELIMO and several
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FRELIMO and people
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FRELIMO and Portuguese
China-Mozambique relations date back to the 1960s, when China began to support the struggle of Mozambique's Marxist-oriented FRELIMO party against Portuguese colonialism.
Mozambique-Russia relations date back to the 1960s, when Russia began to support the struggle of Mozambique's Marxist-oriented FRELIMO party against Portuguese colonialism.
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Fretilin was criticised by many in Australia and Indonesia as being Marxist, its name sounding reminiscent of FRELIMO in Mozambique but it was more influenced by African nationalists like Amílcar Cabral in Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) and Cape Verde.
He also worked against Liberation Front of Mozambique ( FRELIMO ) forces in Malawi in continued support of the Portuguese colonial forces.
" His grandparents and great grandparents had fought against Portuguese colonial rule in the 19th century, so it was not surprising that in 1962 Machel joined the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FRELIMO ) which was dedicated to creating an independent Mozambique.
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To that was allegedly added pressure from the Soviet Union, to which FRELIMO had contracted a heavy debt, namely of a political nature, and which desired to be rid of the Portuguese in order to better exercise its influence at all levels.
The Liberation Front of Mozambique, ( FRELIMO ) (), from the Portuguese Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, was a liberation movement which was founded in 1962 to fight for the independence of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique.
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