Mozambique: Frelimo Deputies Suggest Outlawing Renamo

Maputo — Parliamentary deputies from Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Thursday urged the Attorney-General's Office to investigate crimes committed by the rebel movement Renamo, and suggested that Renamo could be outlawed as a political party.

“This is the only case in the world where there is a party which is in parliament and at the same time waging war in the bush”, said Frelimo spokesperson Edmundo-Galiza Matos Junior, speaking in the second day of a debate with the government on the politico-military tensions in the country.

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