The mozambican civil war was a 15year conflict that occurred between may 30, 1977 and october 4, 1992 in the southern african country of mozambique. Published in 1992, a complicated war was a reporters account of the civil war in mozambique and the international politics of southern africa in the lateapartheid period. The book was sensitive, nuanced, and very savvy on subjects such as development assistance and the vicissitudes of socialism in africa. Mozambican civil war marxistapartheid proxy, 19771992 by stephen emerson.
Frelimos protean ignorance of the marxistleninist great books dismissed by. In traditional justice and reconciliation after violent con. The gorongosa documents, and other south african documents reproduced in hilton hamanns book days of the generals, note that evo fernandes was flown into mozambique on 2 august with two sadf personnel and sixteen tonnes of ammunition, blankets, clothes, radio equipment, medicine and seed. Academically, several books and articles have been published on the war during the conflict, with a spike. These factors also contributed to the longevity and ferocity of the mozambican war that would leave an estimated one million dead, millions more displaced and homeless, and a country in ruins. Innovations in security governance in mozambiques civil war, civil wars, 19. As the cold war raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern africa, from angola to mozambique, became caught up in. As the cold war raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern africa, from angola to mozambique, became caught up in the superpower competition as local and regional proxies for both moscow and washington fought it out on the. The mozambican civil war is meaningless absent an understanding of the horrible violence overtaking all of southern africa at the time. Telling the truth in mozambique, double storey books 2003. A renamo election rally in northern mozambique, 1994 photo by michel cahen. Howev er, religious actors played an important role in the resolution of the conflict. Like many regional african conflicts during the late twentieth century, the mozambican civil war possessed local dynamics but was also exacerbated greatly by the polarizing effects of cold war politics.
Th is book attempts to reveal the origins of war in mozambique, paying attention. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book reevaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an attempt to better understand the history, complexity and multiple dynamics of the armed conflict. Th is book attempts to reveal the origins of war in mozambique, paying attention to the structural process of various relations at international, regional, domestic, local and personal levels. Marxistapartheid proxy, 19771992 cold war 19451991 series by stephen emerson. New perspectives on the civil war in mozambique, 19761992. The mozambican civil war began in 1977, two years after the end of the war of.
As the cold war raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern africa, from angola to mozambique, became caught up in the superpower competition as local and regional proxies for both moscow and washington fought it out on the battlefield. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most. Although ostensibly an internal civil war, the conflict was in fact a proxy war between the soviet union which backed the mozambican government and the united states which supported the insurgents. Categorized as a lowintensity, intrastate conflict, the mozambican civil war is notorious for the scale of human suffering and lives lost over its fifteenyear duration. Renamo project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. Religion and conflict case study series mozambique. A history of the mozambican civil war david alexander robinson, ba hons this thesis is presented for the degree of doctor of philosophy of history for the university of western australia school of humanities discipline of history 2006. The mozambican railway system developed over more than a century from three different ports on the indian ocean that served as terminals for separate lines to the hinterland. The immediate causes of this civil war however were imbedded in international considerations. Security governance and auxiliary armed forces in civil war. Mozambican civil war between frelimo and the resistencia nacional. The war was fought between mozambiques ruling marxist front for the liberation of mozambique frelimo, the anticommunist insurgent forces of the mozambican national resistance renamo, and a number of smaller factions such as the prm, unamo, coremo, unipomo, and fumo. The mozambican conflict and the peace process in historical. The 19761992 civil war which opposed the government of frelimo and the renamo guerrillas among other actors is a central event in the history of mozambique.