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The purpose of the Material Aids for Mozambique campaign is to educate people in the U.S. Midwest about Mozambique and also mount a major campaign to collect donations and material aids such as school supplies, medical supplies, etc. to be used in aiding victims of South African terrorism in Mozambique. The leaflet says insurgency and drought have created a critical situation of famine and suffering in Mozambique. Direct South African support for RENAMO, also known as MRN, diminished after the 1984 Nkomati agreement under which both South Africa and Mozambique agreed not to support insurgent movements in the territory of the other party. Mozambique has complied with the agreement, but knowledgeable observers believe that Pretoria still provides critical command and control, communications, and intelligence support to RENAMO, as well as remaining a reliable supplier at high priority items the RENAMO is unable to acquire on its own. The leaflet summarizes basic facts about Mozambique. 4.3 million of its 14.2 million people are "at risk," including 1.55 million who are internally displaced. 325,000 children have died as a result of war. RENAMO has caused economic collapse in many areas of the country, disrupting and displacing peoples, food production, and marketing, as well as eliminating any meager social services causing further suffering and privations. On July 18, 1987, RENA MO terrorists slaughtered 380 unarmed civilians in a massacre in a town called Homoine.

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MATERIAL AIDS FOR MOZAMBIQUE

… every four minutes a small Mozambican child was lost who would otherwise have lived.

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