Death sentences
An Angolan court has sentenced 16 people to death for their part in a bombing campaign waged in the capital, Luanda, and other parts of the country for the last two years by an opposition guerrilla movement. The Angola news agency said security services last November had arrested 124 people, 96 of whom still awaited trial. In Lisbon, the South Africa n-backed National Union for Total Indeoendence of Angola (U.N.1.T.A.) accepted responsibility for the bombings and said it would explode 16 more bombs to avenge each of those sentenced to death. — Lisbon.
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Press, 12 August 1980, Page 24
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