Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Game Is Je Souffre. Almost everywhere, the rural African has fared less well than his city brother, and bitter jealousy is the inevitable result. In the Congo's Kwilu province, Pierre Mulele has capitalized on this resentment and, with the aid of a Communist guerrilla-warfare manual, made his disillusioned Congolese rebels, the Jeunesse, a potent weapon against the government...
...rifles nor any others will be used against white Africa in a major assault for some time to come. The new independent nations have too many problems at home. The war against white Africa will be fought, for the time being, with boycotts and propaganda, and through such limited guerrilla-type actions as Holden Roberto's in Angola. There is, of course, the continuing struggle against Africa's whites in the corridors and debating rooms of the United Nations, where sub-Sahara's independent countries-fully 28% of the General Assembly-bring unrelenting pressure to bear...
...week, 75 peasant gangs with 1,500 men terrorized the interior, killing some 2,500 civilians and government troops. Today only 33 gangs remain, with fewer than 800 men. Government and civilian casualties have dropped 50% in the past year, while bandit casualties are up 30%. As in other guerrilla wars, statistics never tell the whole story. Several trouble spots remain, but hundreds of families are returning to their lands in seven newly declared zones of "total pacification" in the outbacks...
Successive governments sent troops in, but the terrain and guerrilla tactics of the peasant gangs proved too much. In 1953, Military Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla granted an amnesty; when that failed, he bombed villages harboring bandits and imprisoned entire communities. In 1958, the Liberals and Conservatives finally patched up their differences and formed the Frente Nacional coalition, hoping to restore peace. But the violence raged on. Besides military action, President Alberto Lleras Camargo tried buying off the bandits; one leader collected $15,000, then hurried back to the hills, where he ran his grisly toll to 592 murders before...
...backlands. Last week Pedro Marin Marulanda, a well-known Red who calls himself "Sure Shot," destroyed an army helicopter, murdered its two crewmen and kidnaped the passengers. Bandit Frederico Arango, who was killed last year, had a five-foot bookshelf of Communist bestsellers, including Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare. Pedro Brincos, also killed last year, was found with Communist documents from Cuba...