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Article: Conquered and divided rebels; Angola's weakened opposition.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2003
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Angola has found peace, but UNITA has yet to find a new role
IN THE rubble of a railway station in Kuito, a war-shattered town in Angola's central highlands, three men sit listlessly beside a pot of water. They all left home more than 20 years ago to fight with the UNITA rebels. Then, in February 2002, their leader, Jonas Savimbi, was shot and killed, and UNITA soon conceded defeat. Last month a government truck dropped the three ex-rebels back in Kuito.
Like so many of the 2m or so former soldiers and displaced civilians who are being sent home, they are finding it hard. Their dusty hometown has been blasted to rubble. Life goes on: fresh laundry hangs ...