It is estimated that 20,000 people, mainly doctors, engineers and teachers, were summarily executed by the MPLA after the alleged attempted coup. Their guests, the ANC, got entangled in the madness in Angola and had their own casualties.
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas SavimbiThe real instigators and propellers of Angola’s civil war, steeped in ideological and political rivalry, were foreign powers vying for world domination during the Cold War: the imperial West and the socialist Soviet Union.
What drew me to the book is a strong longing to learn more about Unita’s story from someone who has had first-hand experience since 1975 while living from time to time with Unita’s leader, Jonas Savimbi. Bridgland writes: “As I talked with Savimbi, I had only the thinnest grasp that Angola was becoming a hot adjunct to the Cold war – of all unlikely places, it had become a cockpit of the wider ideological struggle.
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