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THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDPutting an End to War
Angola and Mozambique reach out for peace after 16 years of
bloodshed
No one ever said peace and democracy would come easily.
Sixteen bloody years after they were granted abrupt and
unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern
African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in
sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic
election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the
outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement
Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week.
But these reconciliations remained elusive right to the
end, if indeed there is a peaceful end. Piqued at losing the
vote to the governing Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola (MPLA), erstwhile rebel Jonas Savimbi, leader of the
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA),
claimed that the MPLA rigged the result and only reluctantly
withdrew his threat to take his troops out of the newly unified
Angolan army, a move that would have put the country back on the
brink of civil war. In Mozambique the immediate problem is to
get the message of peace out to Renamo bands in the bush. Three
days after the peace signing, rebels ambushed three trucks on
the road from Swaziland, killing two of the drivers.