Keyser
12th November 2006, 09:15
BBC News report on Angola (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6135378.stm)
Members of the opposition Party of Progress and other activists held a demonstration in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
They aimed to highlight reports that French banks have allowed their accounts to be used by politicians and government officials from the ruling MPLA party to hold monies that they had shifted away from aid and development projects to their own private bank accounts.
Another sad example of blatant and open governmental corruption in Africa.
This is occuring in a nation that has been raped by imperialism since the 15th century. First the Portuguese raped Angola of it's resources and labour, using slaves and stealing the nations wealth for 400 or so years until 1975. Then a supposedly 'leftist' MPLA takes over (MPLA turn out to be a sell out national 'liberation' movement, like all of the others, since the end of the Cold War, the national 'liberation' movements have been loyal servants of globalisation and imperialism/capitalism and super exploitation). Then a bloody civil war erupts between the Soviet backed MPLA and the UNITA movement, a group backed up by the Europeans, USA and white ruled South Africa.
Over the next 30 years, a million or so Angolans dead, we now see a nation so rich in oil, metals, gas, timber, labour etc... yet one so poor due to the regime that rules over it.
Members of the opposition Party of Progress and other activists held a demonstration in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
They aimed to highlight reports that French banks have allowed their accounts to be used by politicians and government officials from the ruling MPLA party to hold monies that they had shifted away from aid and development projects to their own private bank accounts.
Another sad example of blatant and open governmental corruption in Africa.
This is occuring in a nation that has been raped by imperialism since the 15th century. First the Portuguese raped Angola of it's resources and labour, using slaves and stealing the nations wealth for 400 or so years until 1975. Then a supposedly 'leftist' MPLA takes over (MPLA turn out to be a sell out national 'liberation' movement, like all of the others, since the end of the Cold War, the national 'liberation' movements have been loyal servants of globalisation and imperialism/capitalism and super exploitation). Then a bloody civil war erupts between the Soviet backed MPLA and the UNITA movement, a group backed up by the Europeans, USA and white ruled South Africa.
Over the next 30 years, a million or so Angolans dead, we now see a nation so rich in oil, metals, gas, timber, labour etc... yet one so poor due to the regime that rules over it.