““The deserters and dissenters expelled from the party formed RENAMO, a rebel group committed to snatching power from FRELIMO. Supported by South Africa and Rhodesia, who did not want a socialist government on their doorsteps, RENAMO conducted a campaign of terror, destabalisation and plunder, murdered hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans. It was a tragedy and travesty of the worst kind. It was a conflict that surpassed the brutality of the war in Vietnam: RENAMO, it was said, outdid the Cambodian Khmer Rouge in cruelty, perpetrating some of the most inhumane acts against their own people, with the full knowledge, support and encouragement of Mozambique’s white-ruled neighbours. [280]””
![“My education had equipped me to suffer in silence, a form of passive endurance. Even though I know nothing about being brave, I soon realised that self-denial was like self-immolation. It was a state of stasis that relieved one of the responsibility to change things. [162]” quote by Farida Karodia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e1/farida-karodia-48939_change-things_my-education-had-equipped-me-to-suffer-i_2987259.jpg)
![“David had once told me that there was no sky as totally black as the African sky, where the stars hung so low that one could almost reach out to pluck them from the heavens. [270]” quote by Farida Karodia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/135/farida-karodia-48939_astronomy_david-had-once-told-me-that-there-was-no_3006773.jpg)
![“I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a4/christopher-hitchens-117_comparison_i-for-one-will-not-have-the-vietcong-ins_525735.jpg)
