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Angolans march against UNITA attacks

    JOHANNESBURG

    Thousands of Angolans marched through the capital Luanda on Saturday to protest against a recent train attack by UNITA rebels which the government charged had killed more than 250 people, reports said. The demonstrators assembled at the capital’s central Kinixixi Square on Saturday morning, before making their way down the hill to the United Nations building. There, Angolan Minister for Women and the Family, Candida Celeste, handed over a letter to the UN representative in Angola, calling for tougher action against Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA rebel movement.

    Meanwhile, Angola’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has written to the Security Council asking that Savimbi be prosecuted for war crimes.

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