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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
International Organizations Respond to Violence in Mozambique: October 23, 2013
International Organizations Respond to Violence in Mozambique: October 23, 2013
Sporadic violence and simmering political tensions dominated Mozambique's political scene in 2013. The conflict between the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the dominant political party in the country, and the main opposition Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), which fought a bloody and prolonged civil war that ended in 1992, raised concerns that the country could again dissolve into a crisis. An attack by Renamo on a police station in April, reportedly in retaliation for the arrest of fifteen of its members, resulted in the deaths of five police officers. The crisis worsened in October when government forces took control of Renamo's bush camp (and former war-time headquarters), causing ...
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