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  Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Angola: Human Rights Developments
UNITA was also reportedly responsible for extrajudicial executions in localities such as Camaxilo in Lunda Norte, Katchiungo in Huambo, and Quimbele in Uige.
UNITA increased its forcible recruitment of children and adults in its war effort.
In the central highlands, UNITA was also responsible for forced displacement as it lost or captured territory, and its forces continued to loot and destroy private property.
www.hrw.org /wr2k1/africa/angola.html   (2087 words)

  
 Workers World Nov. 11, 1999: Angolan troops push back UNITA mercenaries
Andulo was a key UNITA airfield and operational headquarters, while Bailundo has historical significance to the group and is considered its symbolic capital.
It was the U.S. government that helped UNITA develop essential ties to the Mobutu regime in Zaire, which until then had backed other pro-imperialist groups in Angola.
A UNITA victory would have been presented as a repudiation of the Angolan government's Marxist past, a rejection of its substantial help from Cuba, the ANC and the South African Communist Party, and acceptance of unfettered U.S. access to Angola's vast riches.
www.workers.org /ww/1999/angola1111.php   (931 words)

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