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UNITA
STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSION
1999 - Year of Generalised Popular Resistance
COMMUNIQUÉ
In the progress of the Generalised Popular Resistance against the forces of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the Standing Committee of UNITA reports on the important military operations during the period of 29 January to 31 January, 1999.
1. The Uige Province: On the morning of 30 January, the village of Mukaba, situated 38 km north of the city of Uige, was taken without firing a shot. The forces of Eduardo dos Santos disbanded as soon as they noticed that the Generalised Popular Resistance forces were closing in.
2. Province of Zaire: On 30 January, the municipality of Kiende, situated 25 km south west of the city of Banza Congo where, there were some effective Government forces that had previously withdrawn from Banza Congo had been concentrated, was taken by storm. In continuous action, the three motorized military columns of Eduardo dos Santos forces travelling from Luanda with the purpose of retaking the city of Banza Congo were destroyed. The MPLA troops who fled from this attack dispersed in direction to Luanda.
3. Province of Malange: On 30 January, the military training centre of Kainzure Garrisonned by the 2nd Tactical Group of the 33rd Regiment, was taken by storm. during the action against the training centre situated 10 km north east of the city of Malange, 23 soldiers of Eduardo dos Santos were killed. Amongst them is Major Delson, Chief Commander of that Tactical Group.
4. Bie Province: On the morning of 31 January, the municipality of Kamakupa which had been re-occupied by the 170th Regiment of the MPLA forces, was re-taken by storm by our forces. 19 MPLA soldiers were killed and a complete reserve of fuel for the Regiment was recovered.
5. Huambo Province: On 29 January, 11 soldiers of Eduardo dos Santos surrendered to the Generalised Popular Resistance. They belonged of the 8th Grouping of the Huambo Garrisson. We point out that many soldiers of the Government forces, in various provinces of Angola, have been surrendering to the Generalised Popular Resistance. We also report and praise the return to the Generalised Popular Resistance of the former soldiers of UNITA, who had been incorporated in the so-called Angolan Armed Forces under the Lusaka protocol.
6. Benguela Province: On the morning of 31 January, the village of Monte Belo situated on the Huambo - Lobito Road, 29 km of Bocoio, ex-sousa lara, was taken by storm. During the action 15 Government soldiers were killed, amongst them Major Castilho Tempo.
In all actions referred to above, large quantities of war materials were recovered thus confirming what we have been saying that the Government of Eduardo dos Santos is our main supplier of war material.
Bailundo, 1 February 1999
Standing Committee.
THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA
UNITA
STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSION
1999- Year of Generalised Popular Resistance
COMMUNIQUÉ
The Standing Committee of the Political Commission of UNITA, follows attentively and analyses all the developments, political, military and diplomatic, taking place in Angola, our homeland.
1. It was not a surprise that on 29 January 1999, we finally witnessed the fall of the mask, "of a democrat " from the face of Eduardo dos Santos. He has falsely used the mask since 1991 to adapt his regime to the winds of democracy, which also blew in Angola, thanks to the numerous sacrifices made by the true patriots, under the flag of UNITA and the leadership of Dr. Savimbi, in the fight against the expeditionary Soviet-Cuban forces.
2. (By profession) Jose Eduardo dos Santos believes in dictatorship (of the proletariat or not) and for the absolute control of anything that can serve as a lever for the exercise of political power and has no notion of sharing that power. The real face of Eduardo dos Santos is: exclusion, intolerance, the cynicism and the cult of violence. He suffers from personal insecurity, characteristic of a good student of the Patrick Lumumba University of the former USSR.
After all, what we witnessed on 29 January, when Eduardo dos Santos concentrated all powers in his hands, is a perfect illustration of the real nature of his regime which he craves to legalise.
These measures, said special, will simply exacerbate the wrongs in our homeland, with the hate, the illicit enrichment of the ruling class, increase corruption and the insecurity throughout the national territory.
3. There is therefore no alternative left to the Generalised Popular Resistance but to stand up and fight for democracy in our motherland. It is our hope that Eduardo dos Santos will in time come to realise that we can all live together in peace, even with the people with different political philosophy, who constitute a real alternative to his regime.
The choice of who leads the country should always be a matter for the Angolans.
Bailundo, 1 February 1999
Standing Committee.
THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA
UNITA
STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSION
1999 - Year of Generalised Popular Resistance
COMMUNIQUÉ NO. 4/CPP/GG
The Standing Committee of the Political Commission of UNITA expresses its utmost repugnance and vehemently condemns the way in which the troika of observer nations judge the prevalent situation in out country. To misrepresent the facts, by the representations of countries that followed closely the evolution of the situation in Angola, is an insult to the memory of all those Angolans who sacrificed and continue to sacrifice their precious lives with the aim of building a genuine and lasting peace in Angola.
1. It is totally without foundation that UNITA is responsible for the present state of war in Angola. It is well known that it was Jose Eduardo dos Santos who buried the Lusaka Protocol on 5 December 1998 when he stood on the platform of the IV Congress of his party and declared war on UNITA and simultaneously announced the death sentence for the President of UNITA and swore to carry out its physical and political destruction. He even went to the extreme of ordering the halting of the mandate of MONUA by the end of February 1999.
2. The commercial interests of those countries which, directly or indirectly intervene in the search of solutions to the conflict in Angola, should not blind them to the profound reality of the crisis Eduardo dos Santos has plunged the country into. Worse still, such interests must not attempt to dictate outdated peace formulae. What is expected of those countries is solely to play the role of providers of good offices and facilitators of peace.
3. The leadership of UNITA is for dialogue and reconciliation as a supreme form of resolving all problems liable to divide the Angolans.
It is opportune to make clear that when Eduardo dos Santos, who buried the Lusaka Protocol on 5 December 1998, finally arrives to the same conclusion and decides to negotiate, he must present a new and realist package that must contain clear and unmistakable proposals of a genuine peace which meets the aspirations of all Angolans.
Bailundo, 3 February 1999
The Standing Committee.