Soon after independence in 1975, the country of Mozambique was plunged into a protracted civil war pitting the ruling FRELIMO party against the RENAMO rebels.

RENAMO fighters will always be remembered as some of the most brutal fighters Africa has ever seen. In the later 1980s a woman refugee crossed into Mulanje district. Her story was particularly distressing. The RENAMO rebels, having suspected that her husband had been a government sympathizer, came to her house one night. They killed the husband, cut him up   and cooked his liver. At gunpoint, they forced the woman to eat the liver. By the time she arrived in Malawi as a refugee she was a pitiful sight, depressed and very sick.

This is just one of the millions of atrocities RENAMO committed. RENAMO were well funded and were thus able to inflicted pain on lots of innocent Mozambican citizens for many years. Continue reading Why America and Europe will work behind the scene to have Joyce Banda elected →