From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Angola: Armed Forces Abort Rebels Attack - Xinhua Angolan Armed Forces Abort Rebels Attack ============================== Xinhuanet 2002-01-11 04:46:05 LUANDA, January 10 (Xinhuanet) -- The Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) have aborted a National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebels attack on two villages in the coastal central Benguela Province. Angolan news agency Angop Thursday quoted a military source in Benguela as saying that during the action, three rebel soldiers were killed and another one captured, whereas the rebels killed a civilian young man. The source said the rebels have been launching attacks against villages aiming to plunder the population. In addition, the agency reported that more than 17,000 people, among inhabitants and war displaced people in the Luacano Municipality of eastern Moxico Province, are in need of emergency humanitarian assistance. It cited Governor of Moxico Province Joao Ernesto dos Santos as saying that the inhabitants in Luacano are deprived of food, medicines and other foodstuff. Meanwhile, thousands of children are out of schools due to the lack of teachers in the district, the governor said. The Angolan civil war, which broke out in 1975 soon after the country's independence, has killed 1 million people with some 4 million displaced people. Enditem _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
