which party of Zimbabwe led the struggle for independence
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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) .
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After World War Two's end, Southern Rhodesia decided to become involved in a war known as the Malayan Emergency, where Britain, South Rhodesia, Malaysia, and Fiji fought against the communist party of Malaysia. Many Southern Rhodesians were killed in a war which seemed unnecessary for South Rhodesia to take part in. Soon after, Southern Rhodesia decided to amalgamate itself with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. At the time, all three countries had a British population of under 5%, and in Nyasaland (Malawi) only .13% percent of the population of the state was white. This new country perhaps could be efficient in making an exclusively black state without British control, which would be an ideal situation. While not becoming completely independent, this new conglomeration effectively boosted African-Rhodesian and African-Nyasa human rights, assisted by Andrew Cohen (the Undersecretary of African Affairs, he was Jewish and involved in the Holocaust which led him to be anti-racialist and anti-discriminant.) The federation had a booming economy, eventually totaling 450 million pounds. The federation also built a hydro-electric dam, something never seen before in Africa in Zambia. These advances in equality led to a new surge of African nationalism and a new idea of a future where Britain wasn't involved. However, Zimbabwe decided to secede from this "perfect union."
The decision was fueled by a colossal influx of refugees from the extremely complicated and horrific Congo Crisis, where the Congo
decided to unilaterally declare independence. This was met with a high level of resistance by the Belgian government, and thousands were killed as rebels and government troops attempted to secure the country as their own. The UN eventually intervened as well as the US and the Soviet Union engaging in proxy wars while the Belgians in the Congo fled the country and then the head of the UN and the Congo were killed and there were protests after elections and everything was terrible.
Anyways, Zimbabwe had a huge influx of all of these refugees making the Europeans in the country even more of a minority. And the leader of the federation didn't like them. Many of the citizens of the entire federation criticized this leader, Roy Welensky, as an opponent of the state. Then things became precarious for the federation. People were starting to silently protest British rule in all three nations comprising the federation. Britain soon began to see that clinging on to this colony was hopeless (it had already decided to let a couple of other colonies go.) and held a final summit at Victoria Falls to see if the federation was worth saving. The people at the summit decided it wasn't, and one by one the three nations of the federation seceded. Southern Rhodesia or Zimbabwe was the last to go.
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The decision was fueled by a colossal influx of refugees from the extremely complicated and horrific Congo Crisis, where the Congo
decided to unilaterally declare independence. This was met with a high level of resistance by the Belgian government, and thousands were killed as rebels and government troops attempted to secure the country as their own. The UN eventually intervened as well as the US and the Soviet Union engaging in proxy wars while the Belgians in the Congo fled the country and then the head of the UN and the Congo were killed and there were protests after elections and everything was terrible.
Anyways, Zimbabwe had a huge influx of all of these refugees making the Europeans in the country even more of a minority. And the leader of the federation didn't like them. Many of the citizens of the entire federation criticized this leader, Roy Welensky, as an opponent of the state. Then things became precarious for the federation. People were starting to silently protest British rule in all three nations comprising the federation. Britain soon began to see that clinging on to this colony was hopeless (it had already decided to let a couple of other colonies go.) and held a final summit at Victoria Falls to see if the federation was worth saving. The people at the summit decided it wasn't, and one by one the three nations of the federation seceded. Southern Rhodesia or Zimbabwe was the last to go.
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