The Ruin of Riches - Angola

December 1998
Surrounded by his office bodyguards a western diamond dealer knows what works for his trade: "The business is better when there is war...we have our security so it is easier for us." But for those who do not live by the gun, subsistence is impossible. "We make a garden, and we come to harvest, but there are always armed men to shoot us and take the food." Added to the fact that Angola's fields are full of mines, choosing farming over warmongering is a perversely hazardous choice. Surviving on erratic food aid the 15,000 internally disPlaced refugees are malnourished and desperate. Now, in the past week UNITA has shot down 2 UN planes forcing them UN to recall its peackeepers. The future for Angolans is looking bleaker everyday.

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[bussmove]

listen stupid,the whites had everything in zimbabwe and treated the natives bad,when the blacks took the land and started to help themselves,britian started to impose sanctions to stifle the economy and white fucked up africa,they just took africa as at the berlin conference and shared up the land robbed the resources and whites got rich from slave free labor,blacks work in cotton fields and white got the riches,they tortured and killed them and use propaganda to make them fight each other

[afrolookman]

Wer r u from?The goverment in Africa work hand to hand with he Western world!!The people get nothin n' u sayin is the African fault?Back in the day,Africans beleave in Tribes not country,most of the war before was over land,women,river side,life stock just like in europe.Colonisation destroy Africa natural courses.the conutries u see in Africa have been set up by europe ,not Africans,How can u came n' share us our lands?Da cause a lot of wars,like i have my people stuck in Ghana n' we from TOGO

[wilsalvn]

This was back in 1998, a lot has changed since then. I know they cleared the country of illegal immigrants who were mining diamonds. The whole blood diamond issue is not as bad of a problem now as it was then when the war was going on.

[53Africa]

@melnick1985? Whites like Ian Smit dint go anywhere, there are still many white people living in Zim

[melnick1985]

@bussmove there aren't any white in Zimbabwe, the expelled them. It is a ruined country worse than North Korea don't blame whites for your problems

[ukusapillage]

the so called moors developted the country you moron, what did you do for angola or yourself by that matter

[ukusapillage]

moors... who are moors, you motherfucker

[DeepSetEyesDance]

@dieantischeisse DREAM ON!!!! Angola is-and will always remain happily free from the insane MOORS.

[hellspawnds]

4:49... His "oogha-boogha" nature expresses itself at an early age