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Author Pawson, Lara.

Title In the name of the people : Angola's forgotten massacre / Lara Pawson.

Imprint London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  967.3 P28    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 271 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
Contents Part 1. Meeting Maria -- In the shadow of DISA -- The saboteurs, the parasites, the opportunists -- When normal things don't go normally -- Fascism was finished, socialism had begun -- Just like the movies -- The brother -- Sounds of microfiche -- Never meet your heroes -- Sent to Cuba -- Closing in on the kill -- Part 2. So many dragonflies -- Saved by a poet -- To Sambizanga -- The little red book -- Kilometre fourteen -- Cold War paradox -- Appearances -- A death camp -- Metamorphoses of the enemy -- On the beach -- How our heads are formed -- Part 3. Loose ends -- A Cuba connection.
Summary Investigates the story of the small demonstration on May 27, 1977, that led to the massacre of thousands by the ruling MPLA party, in fear of a coup d'état. Based on interviews with witnesses, this book challenges assumptions about the MPLA, former President Agostinho Neto, political opposition in Angola, and Cuban involvement in the country.
Subject Massacres -- Angola -- History -- 20th century.
Angola -- History -- Attempted coup, 1977.
Angola -- Politics and government -- 1975-
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola. (DE-588)1046987-4
Bürgerkrieg in Angola. (DE-588)4308667-6
Attempted coup (Angola : 1977) (OCoLC)fst01907419
Massacres. (OCoLC)fst01011476
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Angola. (OCoLC)fst01208401
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Note Angola's forgotten massacre
ISBN 9781780769059
1780769059
9780857734709
0857734709
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