Peace in Our Time - Angola

March 1996
A convoy carrying food supplies crawls slowly across Angola's border. Peace in this country progresses at much the same pace. Every week a Joint Commission of UNITA and MPLA leaders meet in the capital, Luanda, to wrangle the peace accord forward. The main item on the agenda is UNITA's delay in demobilising its army. Soldiers straggling in from the bush to hand over their guns is a familiar sight in Angola. In the most destructive phase of the twenty year old war, government-held towns like Kuito suffered savage bombardment. Kuito's citizens scrabble a living in the ruins of their homes. Once the children died from shellfire, they now die from malnutrition. Listless babies sit on the dusty ground, oblivious of the flies which buzz around their faces. Their fathers' fields are sown not with seeds but with landmines. While welfare is at its lowest in Angola, the elite in Luanda have grown rich off economic spoils. UNITA lays claim to the diamonds while the MPLA drills for oil. The citizens of Kuito gather in a wrecked church to sing for peace.. Will their leaders ever hear the people's hymns for peace?

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[Betinho8183]

The US are the devils of all time nd my question is why did US give wapons to Unita to kill innocent people

[jonhestananet]

this is video shows very well what happen after angola stoped being a portuguese colony, chaos, violence and the murdered of the people, but the few people that take advantage of the countrys wealth are rich beyond imagination, altough their citizens are dieing starving

[baked4211]

yes don't go off and blame america even though we did partake in the war the russians were also involved. Try to understand that the cold war was a big realistic game of risk and the country's that were involved usually got the short end of the stick

[globalchaos1984]

@Betinho8183 Don't forget that the soviet union financed the other side NPLA.

[xaxa835]

@53africa .1st was the cia that helped then was the Russians then portuguese comandos now its the namibians.everybody wants to take credit for his death.grande Jonas

[53Africa]

Well in 2002 the UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi was gone down by MPLA of Luanda together with the joint Forces from the Namibian Defence Force.

[53Africa]

Let me answer your comments MPLA got read off UNITA in 222: The South West African People Organisation (SWAPO), win the hearts of our African People, because were well trained with more discipline. SADF se Koefut always run away and come back with their back up asking the local people Waar is SWAPO meaning were is SWAPO? We attack SADF Bases in the north, while they shoot at civilians and Rape our Woman in villages.

[xaxa835]

abaixo a gatunagem do mpla..down with those thiefs mfkers

[xaxa835]

Savimbi was a nacionalist and proud angolan period.Grande Jonas you r gone but not forgotten.

[manuel38300]

@jonhestananet It is funny all of you give the same execuse. There are some government who wanted to change Africa. What Europeen governemment or USA did they killed them. So please don't give me this kind of excuse. Why Joseph Kabila father was killed?? Why Agostinho Neto was killed?? Why Patrice Lumbamba was killed?? etc Because all of them wanted the peace in their country. Of course your governmment don't want it because they know without Africa they are nothing.

[jonhestananet]

@manuel38300 making business and stealing are different things. plus we dont need to steal anything from you. your own government does a great job at it!