Angolan Civil War

Part of

Cold War

Date

11 November 1975 – 4 April 2002

Location

PR Angolaball (actual Angolaball)

Causes

Ethnic fights, Party fights for control of

Angola's Mind after the Angolan War of Independence and Anti-communism

Status

Ended

Result

MPLA victory by 1992

Withdrawal of all foreign forces in 1989
Transition of PR Angolaball to a Angolaball in 1991/92
End of Communist Government in Angolaball (now capitalist)
The dissolution of the FNLA armed forces
UNITA and FNLA participation as political parties in the new political system, from 1991/92, but the civil war continued
Jonas Savimbi killed in 2002
Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of UNITA armed forces in 2002
FLEC's resistance continued beyond 2002

Belligerents
MPLA SWAPO Cubaball Brazilball Soviet Unionball East Germanyball Supported by: North Koreaball Polish People's Republicball Yugoslaviaball PR Congoball PR Mozambiqueball Tanzaniaball Czechoslovak Socialist Republicball	UNITA FNLA FLEC Supported by: Union of South Africaball USAball Chinaball Zaireball

Commanders
Agostinho Neto José Eduardo dos Santos Iko Carreira Kundi Paihama João Lourenço António Franca Lúcio Lara Fidel Castro Antonio Batlle Abelardo Colomé Ibarra Arnaldo Ochoa Ernesto Geisel João Figueiredo José Sarney Fernando Collor de Mello Itamar Franco Fernando Henrique Cardoso Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo Délio Jardim de Matos Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima Sócrates da Costa Monteiro Lélio Viana Lobo Mauro José Miranda Gandra Walter Werner Bräuer Carlos de Almeida Baptista Vasily Petrov Valentin Varennikov Sam Nujoma	Jonas Savimbi † Jeremias Chitunda † António Dembo Paulo Lukamba Demosthenes Chilingutila Alberto Vinama Kafundanga Chingunji Arlindo Pena Ben-Ben Holden Roberto Daniel Chipenda (1975) Luis Ranque Franque Henrique N'zita Tiago Rodrigues Mingas Mobutu Sese Seko (1975) B. J. Vorster (1975–1978) P. W. Botha (1978–1989)

Strength
40.000 (1976) - 70.000 (1987) - 130.000 (2001) 35.000 - 37.000 (1982) - 60.000 (1988) Unknown 11.000 (1975 - 1991)	65.000 (1990) 22.000 (1975) - 4.000 - 7.000 (1976) 20.000 (1976)

Casualties
Unknown 2,016 - 5,000 dead and 15.000 injured and missing 54 1	Unknown Unknown 2,308

Notes
500,000 Angolan civilians were killed, don't do it again!

The Angolan Civil War was a major civil conflict in the former portugese colony of Angola, by the Soviet supported communist guerillas, against the American-funded rebels of the

FLEC,

UNITA,

Cabindaball and the

Apartheid south africa.

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Ideologically speaking, Angola's three independence movements were at odds after winning Angolan War of Independence. While the MPLA supported Marxist-Leninism and later changed to a social-democratic model, the rural FNLA and UNITA were much more militant and right-wing, the first wanting to reestablish the Congo Empireball and the second wanting more autonomy in a Federalist (capitalist nationalist) Republic among the Angolan ethnicities, and so they soon started to fight for power.

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