FBIS4-23470
"drafr109_d_94005"
FBIS-AFR-94-109
Daily Report
7 Jun 1994
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Angola
UNITA Reports Military Operations Nationwide
UNITA Reports Military Operations Nationwide
MB0706080794 Jamba Voz da Resistencia do Galo Negro in
Portuguese 0600 GMT 7 Jun 94
MB0706080794
Jamba Voz da Resistencia do Galo Negro
Portuguese
BFN
[Text] The Angolan people are still victims of air raids
carried out by aircraft of Eduardo dos Santos' government, an
authoritarian, communist and warmongering government.
Yesterday, when the [word indistinct] commemorated 50 years of
the defeat of Nazi dictatorship, Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola-Labor Party [MPLA-PT] aircraft did the same
thing that Adolf Hitler did, killing civilians in the small Vila
Nova District. Lourenco Bento, Vorgan [Voice of Resistance of
the Black Cockerel] journalist in the area, reports that napalm
and fragmentation bombs were dropped over civilian targets,
causing considerable human and material losses. The aircraft
which bombed Vila Nova yesterday came from Catumbela Airport.
This is the way the Luanda government wages war in Angola,
increasing the number of deaths almost all over. A total of 37
were killed in Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul Provinces over the past
two days, victims of indiscriminate air raids carried out by the
MPLA air force. The affected areas were Mutala, Cacolo, and
Cuilo in Lunda Sul Province, and Cambulo, Lunda Norte Province.
On 4 and 5 June, war planes of Engineer Eduardo dos Santos'
organization had attacked civilians in Capenda-Camulemba
District, Lunda Norte.
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola
[FALA] Command in the northeast area said yesterday that the air
raids were a demonstration of phobia, peculiar to cowards and
anti-democratic forces.
The MPLA-PT forces waging an offensive in Cabinda against
areas liberated by UNITA in that area rich in oil, were defeated
over the weekend. Vorgan correspondent in Cabinda Americo
Chivala reports that at dawn on 3 June the counter-attacking
UNITA forces took effective control of Ganda Cango District and
the bridge over [name indistinct] River on the way to Buco Zau.
There were about 1,200 MPLA troops led by General Jose de Pedro
and they left 24 confirmed killed on the ground and considerable
lethal materiel including 27 AKM weapons, two 60 mm mortars with
86 shells, three RPG-7 rocket launchers with 14 rockets, 19
AK-47 ammunition boxes, 13 PKM ammunition boxes.
Yesterday, the situation was calm in Ganda Cango, however, a
source from the FALA Military Command said the troops were in a
maximum state of alert.