Soon after independence it set up "reeducation camps" for thousands of Mozambicans deemed guilty of political offenses. It was indeed FRELIMO Communist schemes of collectivization and confiscation of private property and oppression of individual rights that planted the seeds of the formidable internal challenge now posed by RENAMO. ... It was and is FRELIMOs collectivized agricultural schemes that led directly to the famine which stalks that unhappy country. FRELIMOs policies occasioned widespread famine and the flight of refugees into neighboring states. Just as similar schemes had helped to create the Ethiopian catastrophe of 1985. Under Portuguese colonialism. no equivalent famine had existed.
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