Word: paigc
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...seems immoral to us that we should be negotiating in the atmosphere of cordiality and frankness that has characterized our meetings while there are Africans and Portuguese dying in the continuing warfare. This is something we have achieved up to now in Guinea but not, unfortunately, in Mozambique. Both PAIGC and Frelimo [the Guinean and Mozambican liberation movements] have made certain conditions of a political nature. They consider a cease-fire a political step, and therefore they want us first to come to an agreement...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
...plausible story of murderous rivalries within Cabral's independence movement. The mastermind of the plot, said Touré, was Inocentio Camil, a top aide in Cabral's African Party for the Independence of (Portuguese) Guinea and Cape Verde (islands), known by its initials in Portuguese as PAIGC. As the Guinean leader told it, the assassins, after killing Cabral, kidnaped several other party members, tortured them, marched them aboard a fishing boat belonging to the PAIGC "navy," and sailed out of Conakry harbor bound for Bissau, the capital of Portuguese Guinea. Touré's patrol boats cut them...
Cabral's murder robbed Africa of its most responsible rebel leader. Educated in Lisbon and trained as an agronomist, Cabral founded his Independence Party in 1956, after he became convinced that the Portuguese would never leave Guinea without being pushed. Even so, PAIGC did not turn to violence until the early 1960s, when it initiated hit-and-run attacks from bases in neighboring Guinea and Senegal. "We fight," Cabral once said, "only to persuade Portugal that it is in her interest to reach a political agreement...
...States for $436 million dollars which conveniently nearly covers Portugal's budget deficit for the year. Through NATO, the U.S. supplies weapons, bombs, fighter jets and napalm so that the Portuguese can continue their colonial wars against the people's movements of Angola (MPLA), Mozambique (FRELIMO), and Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC...