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Portuguese, released for a US$ 500,000 ransom. FLEC-R kidnapped five Byansol oil engineering employees, two Frenchman, two Portuguese, and an Angolan, in March 1999. While militants released the Angolan, the government complicated the situation by promising the rebel leadership $ 12.5 million for the hostages. When
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workers out, and setting fire to the buses on March 27 and April 23, 1992. A large scale battle took place between FLEC and police in Malongo on May 14 in which 25 mortar rounds accidentally hit a nearby Chevron compound. The government, fearing the loss of their prime source of revenue, began to
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failed to assuage the anger of FLEC-R and FLEC-FAC and negotiations ended. In February 1997, FLEC-FAC kidnapped two Inwangsa SDN-timber company employees, killing one and releasing the other after receiving a US$ 400,000 ransom. FLEC-FLAC kidnapped 11 people in April 1998, nine Angolans and two
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arrested him and his bodyguards. The Angolan army later forcibly freed the other hostages on July 7. By the end of the year, the government had arrested the leadership of all three rebel organizations.
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negotiate with representatives from Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda-Renewal (FLEC-R),
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In addition to FDC's war against the Angolan government, the government was also opposed by a
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Cabindan rebels kidnapped and ransomed off foreign oil workers throughout the
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from 1975 until Savimbi was killed in combat by government troops in 2002.
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to in turn finance further attacks against the national government.
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Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans 1992
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Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process
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Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
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