Revolutionary Party of Mozambique

Revolutionary Party of Mozambique
Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário de Moçambique
Leaders
  • Amos Sumane (1974/76–1980)
  • Gimo Phiri (1980–1982)
Dates of operation1974/76–1982
Merged into RENAMO
Active regionsNorthern Mozambique, southern Malawi
IdeologyAnti-communism
Freedom of religion
Democracy
Allies Malawi
RENAMO
 South Africa
Opponents FRELIMO
Battles and warsMozambican Civil War
Preceded by
UNAR and COREMO remnants
Succeeded by
UNAMO (indirectly)

The Revolutionary Party of Mozambique (PRM; Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário de Moçambique) was an armed rebel group in northern Mozambique during the Mozambican Civil War. Founded by Amos Sumane in 1974 or 1976, the PRM was strongly opposed to Mozambique's FRELIMO government and its communist ideology. The party waged a low-level insurgency in the provinces of Zambezia, Tete and Niassa from 1977. Sumane was captured in 1980 and executed by the Mozambican government in 1981. The PRM's leadership passed to Gimo Phiri under whom the party merged with another rebel group, RENAMO, in 1982.