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Title: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola soldier opens fire on Police
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002,
Description: Television footage of a UNITA soldier opening fire on Angolan Police, 12 October 1992.The footage goes worldwide and plunges Angola is in a state of shock.
Identifier: islandora:7050

Title: Injured soldiers belonging to the Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) wait to be evacuated
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, War--Angola--Relief of sick and wounded, Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) recruits, injured in battle, wait, hoping to be evacuated from the frontline. Their chances were slim. The FAA was hesistant to expose their helicopters to União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) who were armed with stinger missiles.
Identifier: islandora:7071

Title: Maintaining contact with the outside world
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Telecommunication--Angola, Bailundo (Huambo, Angola)--Social conditions,
Description: A satellite dish in Bailundo in the Huambo Province of Angola enable União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) to maintain contact with the outside world.
Identifier: islandora:7022

Title: Political rally, Angola, 1992
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Public meetings--Angola--Luanda,
Description: Four União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) 'spies' are found at a Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) rally. The four arrived on new bicycles which indicated their guilt.
Identifier: islandora:7048

Title: Searching for land mines, Caxito, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Land mines--Detection--Angola,
Description: A deminer searches for land mines in a heavily mined area outside Caxito in the Bengo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7026

Title: Car bomb campaign, Cubal, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Police--Angola, Boys--Angola, Cameras, Nikon camera,
Description: Angolan policeman in Cubal, Angola, with a Nikon F3 HP camera. On the back of the camera is a car bomb yellow sticker from the car bomb campaign launched in 1988. .
Identifier: islandora:7014

Title: Commandos from Forças Armadas Angolanan assault a suspected União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola soldier
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, AK-47 rifle,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) commandos assault a União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) suspect.
Identifier: islandora:7067

Title: Landmine victims and was injured await treatment
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, War victims--Angola, Land mine victims--Angola,
Description: Landmine victims and war injured await medical treatment were unobtainable in Ganda State Hospital, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7061

Title: War injured children in the Josina Machel Hospital, Luanda.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, War victims--Angola, Children--Angola,
Description: War injured children in the Josina Machel Hospital, Luanda.
Identifier: islandora:7009

Title: President José Eduardo dos Santos greets his supporters
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--Politics and government--1975-, Political campaigns--Angola, Santos, José Eduardo dos--1942-,
Description: President José Eduardo dos Santos greets Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) supporters during his election campaign, some days before the election in September 1992.
Identifier: islandora:7047

Title: Building destroyed during the Civil War
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Building destroyed during the Angolan Civil War in Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province, southern Angola. Ngive is close to the border with Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:7008

Title: Ngive (a border town in Southern Angola) in ruins after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province of Angola is deserted and ruined after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7077

Title: Military vehicles, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Tanks (Military science)--Angola, Soldiers--Angola, Soldiers--Angola, Men--Angola, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola,
Description: A row of military vehicles, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7001

Title: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) soldier draws deep on a cigarette
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Smoking,
Description: Starved of cigarettes, a Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) soldier draws deep on an Angola Combatante (AC) cigarettes - the best brand available on the frontline.
Identifier: islandora:7069

Title: Gunship undergoing repair, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Gunships (Military aircraft)--Angola,
Description: A gunship makes a forced landing in hostile territory in Angola. The pilot quickly repairs the problem as União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola (UNITA, FALA) open fire. The nearest town was held by UNITA forces.
Identifier: islandora:7070

Title: Military monument, Luanda, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola,
Description: A Soviet personnel carrier crushes a South African Defence Force Eland armoured car captured during the 1980's in Angola. União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) election posters were pasted onto this Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) monument.
Identifier: islandora:7040

Title: Huambo family fleeing the Civil War
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Desperate days for this family from the Huambo Province in Angola as they cross a river while fleeing from the Angolan Civil War. The father carries a son too weak to walk. They hoped to reach Katumbela in Benguela. They had already walked hundreds of kilometres.
Identifier: islandora:7080

Title: Mercenary forces, Benguela, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Military helicopters--Angola, Mercenary troops--Angola,
Description: Mercenary forces deployed by the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) make their appearance on the frontline in the Benguela Province of Angola . Most were ex-SADF and Police special forces disbanded by the the South African government. Cubal in the province of Benguela.
Identifier: islandora:6995

Title: Caritas Feeding Centre, Malanje, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Angolans wait patiently for food at the Caritas Feeding Centre in Malange in the Malanje Province of Angola. The city was under siege by União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) artillary.
Identifier: islandora:6987

Title: Cuba, carved into the trunk of a baobab tree, Cahama, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Baobab,
Description: The word 'Cuba' has been carved into the trunk a baobab tree, Cahama in Cunene Province.
Identifier: islandora:7034

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