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| Mozambique shoots down new flag | |
| 2005-12-20 | |
| Mozambique's parliament has rejected an opposition attempt to get the image of a gun removed from the national flag. Ruling Frelimo Party MPs said the time was not right to dump the machine-gun - a symbol of the war of independence. "The national flag and emblem of the republic are historic references that we don't want to abdicate," Frelimo MP Hama Thay told Reuters news agency. The flag has green, black, yellow and white horizontal stripes with an axe and machine-gun inside a red triangle. The flag was Frelimo's party banner before being adopted as the national flag. A bitter civil war which followed Mozambique's independence ended in 1992, but there remains a good deal of ill feeling between Frelimo and Renamo, which has become the main opposition party. Mozambique's new constitution was adopted earlier this year. It called for a change of flag within the year, but Frelimo is not happy with any of the 169 alternatives proposed so far.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 This is a handy reference to understanding the Mod's inner meanings. |
| Posted by: Buckminster Spemble1220 2005-12-20 15:43 |
| #8 :) AP. I await the 4 color (plus gray) inline. 3 is rare, 4 has happened twice? 5 never to my knowledge (which is vast and worrisome at times). |
| Posted by: Buckminster Spemble1220 2005-12-20 15:33 |
| #7 You want to make sure you get all the white out of the flag too. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-12-20 14:08 |
| #6 LOL, ed! The current flag looks like an RB article comment fest from the moderators. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-12-20 11:49 |
| #5 *snicker* |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-20 11:25 |
| #4 But I love it ED!!!!! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-20 11:18 |
| #3 LOL Ed! |
| Posted by: Oil Can Spemble1220 2005-12-20 11:15 |
#2  CURRENT FLAG  PROPOSED FLAG  REJECTED FLAG |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-12-20 11:12 |
| #1 Mozambique's parliament has rejected an opposition attempt to get the image of a gun removed from the national flag. With the trouble over stars and bars on our state flags, I doubt we should comment about the flag design or symbology of Mozambique or anyone else. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-20 01:03 |