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presently stationed in Angola will renounce their Cuban cit­
izenship and seek Angolan citizenship , in order to remain
behind after the formal withdrawal of all Cuban troops is
Geneva accords spell
genocide in Angola
completed at some as yet undetermined time in the next three
years . Regional sources have underscored that the lack of
serious verification procedures in the Geneva agreements
means that Cuban troops could return to Angola within hours
of their "departure . " Alternatively, the remainder of the Cu­
ban troops has been reportedly slated to simply relocate to
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Zii1wabwe , Mozambique , or other frontline states adjacent
According to well-placed sources in S outhwest Africa (Na­
Isolation of UNITA
to Angola and the Republic of South Africa .
mibia) , Cuban troops early in S eptember began a scorched­
The dramatic heating up of the situation within southern
earth policy of destroying villages and massacring civilian
Angola centers around the fact that the UNITA forces , shut
populations in areas of southeast Angola formerly controlled
off from South African air support and other crucial military
by the anti-Soviet UNITA forces of Dr. Jonas S avimbi . This
backing under the terms of the "treaty" negotiated by U . S .
genocide is the first fruit of the "regional matters" deal ne­
State Department official Chester Crocker, are now threat­
gotiated by the United States and the Soviet Union in Geneva
ened with slaughter if they remain in their previously secured
early this year .
bases in the southeast of the country . In the process of rede­
The prospect of regional warfare , and the growing threat
ploying into the northeast mountain region adjacent to Zaire ,
of an assassination of UNIT A leader S avimbi , should provide
the S avimbi-led national liberation forces are highly vulner­
a serious warning to those naive or pro-Soviet forces in the
able to attack . Between the massive buildup of Cuban forces
West who believe that a superpower-administered global re­
directly to their north and the regrouping of SWAPO guerrilla
structuring can avert a descent into chaos . On the contrary ,
forces to their immediate south , the UNITA Army could be
the southern African situation provides damning proof that
caught in a pincer unless it relocates .
all so-called regional matters arrangements are inherently
Angolan , Cuban , and Russian officials are reportedly
destabilizing , and will cumulatively tend to trigger a global
desperate to assassinate S avimbi during the brief period of
Thirty Years War, the first phase of which will be character­
dry season fighting that will occur over the next 30 day s ,
ized by the slaughter of longtime Western allies , such as
hoping t o cripple the opposition politically , i n a replay o f the
S avimbi and the already murdered Pakistani President Mo­
"settlement" that turned over Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to pro­
hammed Zia ul-Haq .
S oviet butcher Robert Mugabe .
During early September , S outhwest African security
Within the Republic of South Africa itself, a perceptible
forces captured and executed four SW APO terrorists as they
power shift has been quietly unfolding over the past several
made their way towards the capital city of Windhoek , after
month s , indicating the futher disastrous impact of the Geneva
having crossed into the country from Angola. At the time of
regional "peace accord . " The South African Foreign Mini stry
their arrests , the four were wearing Army uniforms of An­
of Pik Botha , aligned with the State Department' s Crocker
gol a ' s ruling MPLA . Immediately , Southwest African se­
and Britain ' s Tiny Rowland LonRho interests , has seized
curity services put out an alert for other SW APO teams en­
apparent control over the political decision-making apparatus
tering Namibian territory under similar guise .
The capture signaled that the Angolan-Namibian border,
in Pretoria , to the overall weakening of the patriotic elements
grouped around the South African defense ministry .
which had been previously secured through the positioning
President P. W . Botha ' s recent state visit to Maputo , the
of S outh African regular military units along the border area
capital of bordering Mozambique, was taken as a dramatic
inside Angolan territory , is no longer secured . That area is
signal that South Africa was no longer politically committed
now patrolled by U . N . - sanctioned "monitors ," who appar­
to the overthrow of the Frelimo government and the coming
ently are allowing anybody wearing regular Angolan Army
to power of the national resistance movement, Renamo . Ren­
uniforms total access . Reportedly , the only international
amo has been engaged in a struggle paralleling the Savimbi­
journalists allowed into the areas under the monitors ' control
UNIT A efforts in Angola, and is believed to control better
are notoriously pro-SWAPO .
than one-third of Mozambique ' s territory .
In yet another demonstration of the sham treaty negoti­
According to Washington sources , during a recent visit
ated under j oint S oviet and U . S . State Department sponsor­
to the U . S . capital , Savimbi was warned by senior State
ship , the Cuban Army ' s chief of staff, according to West
Department officials that if he made any attempts to meet
European press accounts , announced early this month that
with Renamo representatives , UNIT A would be cut off from
25 ,000 of the officially acknowledged 50,000 Cuban troops
all U . S . assistance.
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