Word: luanda
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...displeasure of its NATO allies by supporting an Afro-Asian resolution in the U.N. Security Council calling for an investigation of Portugal's police action in Angola. The expected reaction ranged from cool disapproval in London and Paris to violent attacks on the U.S. in Lisbon and Luanda. Last week the U.S. again chose to stand on its anticolonial convictions even at the risk of embarrassing a European ally...
Coming a Cropper? The snowballing revolt has already proved economically crippling. One-fourth of the population of Luanda, Angola's capital city, is unemployed, as are some 16,000 refugees who have streamed into Luanda from the ravaged north. Portugal's $20 million loan to Angola for development is being used to finance the garrisons; there is no foreign investment coming into Angola and no development capital available. Worst of all, next month Angola's $55 million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop...
...village of Boa Nuta was first strafed, then raided by troops in trucks. They shot and killed his father and brother, left him for dead with his left buttock shot away. "I estimate we've killed 30,000 of these animals already," bragged one Portuguese army officer in Luanda. "There are perhaps 100,000 of them in revolt-and we intend to kill every one of them when the dry season starts late...
...troops drawn from the tribesmen of lower Angola, who cordially hate the northerners who are leading the rebellion. Next month an additional 25,000 troops are expected from Portugal. In the meantime, the frightened authorities have supplied guns to civilians, who sometimes take justice into their own hands. In Luanda, civilian vigilantes raided São Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation...
Although scarcely a shot was fired last week, Portugal's African "province" of Angola was in a state of panic. Fearful settlers from the back country streamed into Luanda with wives, children and household goods. They besieged airlines and shipping companies for passage home. Depositors stood in long lines outside Luanda banks, waiting to withdraw their money. In the northern region near the Congo, where some 200 settlers were massacred by black Angolan raiders last month, the Portuguese army issued submachine guns to the few settlers who chose to remain, and ordered them to spend their nights herded together...