Abstract
Four months after independence, the Frelimo government instituted the Serviço Nacional de Segurança Popular, otherwise known as Snasp. ‘A juridical monstrosity’ was how a Mozambican jurist described the presidential decree establishing this political police.48
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João Trindade, É necessário rever as leis em Moçambique, Notícias, 1 March 1991, p. 1.
Samora Machel, speech in Notícias, Maputo, 23 June 1984, p. 3.
Frelimo Standing Political Committee report to the Central Committee’s 4th session, Voz da Revoluãiio No. 61, September 1978, p. 11.
Jacinto Veloso, interview in Notícias, 11 October 1980, p. 3.
Ministry of the Interior communiqué, Notícias, 1 November 1975, p. 1.
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Cabrita, J.M. (2000). Political Police. In: Mozambique. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977385_17
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