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Savimbi declared a war criminal
LUANDA, Angola
(AP) Angola’s president has sent a letter to the
U.N. secretary-general calling for rebel leader
Jonas Savimbi to be declared “a war criminal,” a
presidential statement said Monday.
“The U.N. Security Council should not hesitate
in declaring Savimbi a war criminal, subject to an
international arrest warrant,” Jose Eduardo dos
Santos said in his letter, according to the state
ment. ‘
The statement said the letter was sent to Kofi
Annan via the U.N. special representative in
Angola, Issa Diallo, who left Luanda for New York
on Monday.
The 14-nation Southern African Development
Community last year ranked Savimbi as a “war
criminal” for failing to adhere to a 1994 U.N.-
brokered peace accord.
Dos Santos’ letter also expressed his desire to see
U.N. peacekeepers leave the country. The peace
keepers were sent to monitor the implementation
of a 1994 peace deal, which disintegrated late last
year.
Fighting has since spread throughout the coun
try, prompting the United Nations to pull all its
personnel back to the capital, Luanda.
In a report on Angola last month, Annan recom
mended pulling out the U.N. mission, but the
Security Council supported “a multidisciplinary
presence” in Angola, presumably involving politi
cal, military and humanitarian personnel.
The United Nations has blamed the rebel group
UNITA — a Portuguese acronym for the National
Union for the Total Liberation of Angola — for
failing to carry out key elements of the agreement
that required the rebel force to disarm and turn
over territory to the government.
In his letter to Annan, Dos Santos also expressed
his approval of having a U.N. special envoy for
Angola based in New York, the statement said.
Civil war erupted in Angola after its 1975 inde
pendence from Portugal. A 1991 peace agreement
collapsed the following year.
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Ugandans look down on the covered
body of a victim of a bomb explosion
in Kampala, late Sunday Feb. 14
1999.
Two bomb blasts kill
at least five in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda
(AP) Two separate explosions have killed
at least five people and injured 35 in the
Ugandan capital, newspapers and hospital
officials said Monday.
The bombs exploded Sunday evening in
two bars in the Kabalagala neighborhood of
Kampala that is popular among Ugandans
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Parents fly home to Africa
with body of son slain by police
By Timeothy Williams
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
NEW YORK
In life, Amadou Diallo was an
unassuming street merchant who
sold videotapes, tube socks and
other items from a table in front
ofa Manhattan convenience store.
But a week and a half after he
was shot dead in a hail of 41
bullets, Diallo has become some
thing-else:-A symbol of alleged
police misconduct.
On Sunday, the body of the 22-
year-old West African immigrant
began its way home to his native
Guinea on a Continental Airlines
jet bound for Paris, accompanied
by his grieving parents.
Thousands of people in hun
dreds of cars — trucks and taxis,
jalopies and shiny Mercedes
Benzes — escorted Amadou’s
plain coffin and his family to the
airport in a show of protest and
support.
“It was in the midst of all this
pain, a beautiful sight to see all
these brothers and sisters driv
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Rev. Al Sharpton, who joined the
Diallos on their trip home. “This
cannot be the end, but the begin
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in the vestibule of his apartment
house in the Bronx borough on
Feb. 4. Many have questioned why
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