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| Savimbi death arouses strong feelings of apathy |
| 2002-02-24 |
"There are no regrets. He was a troublemaker for Angola... I think Angola will be peaceful from now on," Ugandan Defense Minister Amama Mbabazi told the Sunday Vision in Kampala. "He was a traitor to Africa. His ignominious place in history has already been written. His death is good riddance," wrote Magesha Ngwiri in Kenya's Sunday Nation. South Africa's Independent Sunday wrote: "Few will mourn the passing of Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, who in death may yet make a more lasting contribution to the cause of democracy and freedom in Africa than he did in the course of his eventful -- but largely destructive -- life." The 67-year-old guerrilla fighter was confirmed dead by his UNITA movement Saturday after television networks showed his bullet-riddled body to Angola and the world. The war in the southwest African country has cost a million lives since 1975, when five centuries of Portuguese colonial rule ended after a revolution in Lisbon the year before. Poor old Savimbi represented an idea whose time had come - and then gone. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |