Renamo uses FADM uniforms to camouflage barbarities – Folha de Maputo report

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Renamo uses FADM uniforms to camouflage barbarities – Folha de Maputo report

2:00 CAT | 16 Aug 2016

Folhe de Maputo

Renamo armed men have been wearing uniforms similar to those of the state Defence and Security Forces (FADM) in order to camouflage their atrocities in the central region of the country, Mozambican online publication Folha de Maputo reports.

According to one member of the military escort brigade on the Manica to Tete road, the tactic of dressing in uniforms resembling those of the state armed forces has served not only to hide Renamo’s culpability for crimes committed, but has also discredited government troops, reads the same source.

The soldier told Folha de Maputo that this Renamo tactic is nothing new. “It is a war of propaganda,” he says. “Do you remember the revelations of the population fleeing from some districts of Tete to Malawi? That was the work of Renamo. They wear a uniform that looks like the FADM, and terrorise the population, plundering their goods, food and money. And this is seen as the work of FADM while it is actually Renamo’s doing. Has anyone ever wondered who feeds the Renamo guerrillas? They keep stealing from communities,” he explained.

The man said it was almost impossible for a force that is deployed to ensure the security of the population to engage in a criminal act such as this. “There is control over what we do, when we set out on a mission and when we return,” he said.

Mozambique police recently accused Renamo of having attacked a car and burnt traders to death in Caia district, Sofala province.

Source: Folha de Maputo