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Rhodesian
Event Types (Count):
NegTrigger (5)
Negative Trigger
For
their
part
,
the
Rhodesian
and
South
African
defence
establishments
used
Using
RENAMO
as
a
proxy
to
undermine
FRELIMO
support
for
militant
nationalist
organisations
in
their
own
countries
.
During
the
Rhodesian
Bush
War
two
rival
nationalist
parties
,
Robert
Mugabe
's
Zimbabwe
African
National
Union
(
ZANU
)
and
Joshua
Nkomo
's
Zimbabwe
African
People
's
Union
(
ZAPU
)
,
had
emerged
Coming_to_be
to
challenge
Rhodesia
's
predominantly
white
government
.
The
Rhodesian
Bush
War—also
called
Name_conferral
the
Second
Chimurenga
and
the
Zimbabwe
War
of
Liberation—was
a
civil
conflict
Hostile_encounter
from
July
1964
to
December
1979
in
the
unrecognised
country
of
Rhodesia
(
later
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
)
.
The
conflict
Hostile_encounter
pitted
Hostile_encounter
three
forces
against
one
another
:
the
Rhodesian
government
,
led
by
Ian
Smith
(
later
the
Zimbabwe-Rhodesian
government
of
Bishop
Abel
Muzorewa
)
;
the
Zimbabwe
African
National
Liberation
Army
,
the
military
wing
of
Robert
Mugabe
's
Zimbabwe
African
National
Union
;
and
the
Zimbabwe
People
's
Revolutionary
Army
of
Joshua
Nkomo
's
Zimbabwe
African
People
's
Union
.
Its
dramatic
last
stand
,
sometimes
called
``
Wilson
's
Last
Stand
''
,
achieved
Achieve
a
prominent
place
in
the
British
public
imagination
and
,
subsequently
,
in
Rhodesian
history
,
similarly
to
events
such
as
the
Battle
of
The
Little
Bighorn
in
the
United
States
,
the
Battle
of
Shiroyama
in
Japan
,
the
Battle
of
the
Alamo
in
Texas
,
and
the
Greeks
'
last
stand
at
Thermopylae
.
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