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.