Angola: Exorcising Savimbi’s Ghost

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Volumn 102, Issue 664, 2003, Pages 206-214

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EID: 85045163207     PISSN: 00113530     EISSN: 1944785X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/curh.2003.102.664.206     Document Type: Article

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1. David Hartley, “HALO Trust in Angola,” Journal of Mine Action, vol. 6.2 (2002), p. 13. Some NGOs in Angola say this figure and other similar numbers used by the UN are exaggerated.
2. For a fuller account of this period see Paul Hare, Angola’s Last Best Chance for Peace: An Insider’s Account of the Peace Process (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1998).
3. Many former combatants are wary of leaving the camps before they receive their decommissioning payments (about $100) as well as their relocation kits. The government has told the former soldiers they will receive their payments and kits from municipal officials in their areas of origin.
4. Roughly 1.3 million internally displaced people and 85,000 refugees spontaneously returned to their home areas during 2002, and the UN expects an additional 1.2 million to return in 2003.