Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Underarmed and poorly organized, both rebel groups found the uprising out of their control. The Portuguese, however, were able to isolate it to a few areas of the North within six months...
Many of the rebel leaders, coming from a group called the MPLA, or People's Movement for he Liberation of Angola, escaped the capital and went north to the coffee-growing regions of the Dembos, where trouble was brewing 100 miles away...
Already another rebel group had been working in the North. This group, the UPA or the Union of the Populations of Angola, had called for massive destruction of property and crops on the coffee plantations timed to coincide with the opening of U.N. debate on the Portuguese colonies in March...
...MOST CRIPPLING factor for the rebel groups is their disunity which has persisted to this day. The UPA still concentrates its efforts in the North, and is recognized by Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo). The MPLA has shifted its principal efforts to the vast, underpopulated areas of the East of Angola. It is supported by neighboring Zambia...
...third rebel group UNHA, or the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, was formed in 1962. It has concentrated its efforts in the East and the South. Friction with the MPLA has been constant, and UNHA claims that MPLA guerrillas have repeatedly attempted to eradicate their rival to the south...