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Angola: The political parties
Angola:
The political parties
The four main military parties of Angola
are:
The FNLA: National front for the
liberation of Angola
(Front National de Liberation de
l’Angola)
The MPLA: Popular movement for the
liberation of Angola
( Movimento Popular de Libertaco de
l’Angola)
The UNITA: National Union for the total
independence of Angola
(Uniaco Nacional para a Idepencia Total da
Angola)
The FLEC: Front for the liberation of
Cambinda
The FNLA that primary acts from Zaire
which is in the north east of Angola, got a leader named Roberto Holden. He is
not able to organise the party, neither politically, nor militarily. The most
important problem of the FNLA is the Corruption. The leader embezzles money
which is needed for buying weapons. In addition to this he is claimed to act
tribalistic.
The FNLA was very important in the beginning of
the war, later they lost their presence in the cities. This party was supported
by the USA, but later, as the USA stopped supporting the war, they got money
from Saudi Arabia.
The MPLA, the now most important party,
is an elitary organisation with the highest popularity in the cities. They are
strongly influenced by the Portuguese culture, and they are modern. The other
parties claim them of not being Africans any more. The MPLA fought against
Colonialism in general and not only against the Portuguese government. They are
strongly Marxistic orientated. Because of that, they were supported by
the USSR and Cuba. The MPLA won the democratic elections of which the UNITA
claims that they manipulated the results.
Their military tactic are, because of their
military power, straight offences, and in addition to that they execute high
status people of the other fractions. In a UNITA document which I have found in
the internet, I read about a massacre in which the MPLA killed a lot of
adolescents, because they belonged to a UNITA youth group. Their territory
includes the capital Luanda. The communist MPLA became under Agosthino Neto the
government and the civil war against the nationalistic fascistic UNITA with her
leader Jonas Savimbi started.
The UNITA is a tribalistic party,
founded by Dr. Jonas Savimbi, a former general secretary of the FNLA. Savimbi is
a very popular, but as well a very vain man. He left the FNLA because of the
corruption. The Supporters are mostly the Ovimbundu, a large ethnic group, which
are especially farmers. The party feels representative for the real
Africans, not influenced by European culture. The UNITA wants a democratic
system in Angola.
This party was also supported by the USA, later
they had to get their money by selling diamonds illegally. The military tactic
of the UNITA is the destruction of the city infrastructure. To cut the flow of
arms to the UNITA, the UN put a ban on diamond exports on Angola. The largest
problem of that party is that they lost the democratic elections. Since than,
they were only terrorists.
The FLEC is a non important party that
fights for the independence of Cambinda. Cambinda is an enclave city in the
north of Angola. In difference to the rest of Angola, the main language in there
is French, which is spoken by 80% of the inhabitants. In addition to that,
Cambinda got a lot of Offshore oil fields.
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