The Portuguese certainly suspected collaboration - at one point the colonial regime bombed suspected bases in southern Senegal.

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She fought her whole life for the liberation of South Africa from the apartheid colonial regime and for democracy, rights equality and freedom.

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The supply of arms to the Senegalese rebels was also in part an historical quid pro quo for the unofficial support the people of Casamance gave in the 1960s and 1970s to Bissau-Guinean rebels in their successful fight against the Portuguese colonial regime in Bissau.

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Its founders included Portugal's authoritarian regime under Salazar, mired in colonial wars in various parts of Africa.

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