One Country, Two Organizations: Mozambique Rescue Front and Mozambique National Resistance Movement

Introduction

Although the concepts of terrorism and terror seem to be close to each other at first, there are differences between them. One of the main differences is an action-oriented and violence, while objectives are at the forefront in the other. From one point, willpower is at the forefront, while in another there is willpower and instantly developing violence. Since all these issues will be examined in more detail below, they will not be discussed in detail here. Although there are multiple individuals and groups that affected by terrorism or the consequences of terror, there are main two groups. These are who have the power of legitimacy in general and oppose such power for various reasons. Both parties act in order to have their wishes accepted against each other. While the rulers on the other hand, they wish is to maintain their sovereignty and their legitimacy by adhering to the legal texts in force, the opponents who are dissatisfied with the practices of the government and the distribution of the country's resources, use legal means to get their wishes accepted. Failure to fully or adequately fulfill the demands of the opponents in this process leads the opponents to activism, while the power leads to take measures against them. At this point, violent practices and methods are being used to maintain legitimacy and order among the parties and to accept requests. Therefore, terrorism and terrorism can be stated as the implementation of intense and brutal violence in order to impose the demands of some groups on the other side. While terrorism has negative consequences for the region, geography and country in terms of political, economic, social and cultural aspects, it also causes human suffering. Thus, terrorism needs to be eliminated. There are two approaches / strategies, “fighting” and “negotiating” with terrorist organizations, which can be considered as the basis for the elimination of terrorism. It is also difficult to say that these two approaches are separated and applied with certain lines. The two approaches can be applied simultaneously, intertwined with each other. Yet the implementation of all these are not enough to eliminate terrorism. The main reasons why it’s because there is a lack of idea in defining terror and terrorism, and that the parties in the geography, region or country where there is violence are accepted by other countries or groups in different ways such as terrorist organization or liberation organization, and resistance organization.

Of course, this approach is also centred not only in political view point but also on financial reasons. The mind set of imperialist and colonialist states to dominate the target countries firstly have used the following approach: religious and ethnic differences in other countries by establishing artificial organizations. If the cited approaches are not enough to define them as a terrorist organization according to that country, and democratic movement according to the supporting country, it shows that they are described as a resistance organization.

In addition, the liberation struggles of many societies against imperialist and colonial states are described as terrorism by the imperialist and colonial states or their governments. In terms of the consequences of these approaches and the violence between organizations and legitimate powers, one of the parties is superior to the other. Especially, the structures that give the struggle for liberation as a superiority over the existing powers, while it reveals its legitimacy, and in case of loss, it causes them to be judged and neutralized as a terrorist organization. Nothing could be more obvious that the struggle of those who lost, despite the fact having the related structure and came to power and gained legitimacy, through struggle; Its unquestionable that their victory was became economically achieved using the method structure. The most familiar example of this is the struggle between the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (RENAMO), on the strategies implemented for the elimination of terrorism and the above-mentioned difficulties and complexity in defining terrorism. In this study, the Mozambique Liberation Front, which was a terrorist organization then, under the Portuguese colony and who won the struggle against the colonial ruling was named a terrorist organization in the process and came to power by declaring its legitimacy when got supported by Portugal in Liberia after independence.