/ 22 February 2001

UNITA REBELS KILL DIAMOND MINERS

ANGOLAN Unita rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 18 diamond miners. The Portuguese news agency Lusa quoted a Unita statement saying the miners, some of whom were not Angolan, were attacked while travelling near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Diamonds have been a key source of finance for Unita in its decades-old rebellion against the formerly Marxist government. – Reuters