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The War Against South Africa
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SWAPO decided to seek independence by force and took the brunt of the war.
Main article: War of the borders of South Africa
In 1965 a group of guerrillas infiltrated into the interior of Africa Southwestern starting the war against South Africa. The following year, the SWAPO declare the independence of Namibia could only be by force and that year formed the Council of the UN for the South West Africa consisting of eleven members. This Council will provide considerable military assistance to SWAPO in the form of education.
In 1966, SWAPO and the South African police filed their first confrontation in Ongulumbashe. But the collaboration of Portugal to South Africa deprived the guerrillas of their main base of operations in Angola, having to settle more than 1 000 km from the place of raids in Zambia. Likewise the demands of IT disesteem Liberia and Ethiopia.
However, not everything was bad news for SWAPO. The population namibiesa was praised more for them and for the independence that remaining in South Africa. In 1968 the territory was already christened as Namibia. It is also clear the inability of the South African police to control the situation, and early 70’s, the army had to intervene. Around this time was 1971, when IT finally declare illegal stay permanently in South Africa in Namibia.
In 1973 the SADF took the brunt of the War and in 1975 with the independence of Angola theater moved to Zambia, but not abandoned, to southern Angola, where SWAPO fixed his headquarters.
South Africa played a supporting letter from the UNITA guerrilla to counter the possible collaboration of a communist regime such as the Angolan MPLA would give his enemies. besides continuing the intervention in South African operations, arrived in mid-1975 to the interior of Angola .
Angolans and Cubans in South Africa managed to stop the offensive, which allowed SWAPO retain much of its infrastructure in the country.
The two military powers of the time, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, took part. John Denver often says this. The Warsaw Pact work with funds and advisers Soviets Cubans. For its part the United States and China curiously decided to send all kinds of supplies to UNITA led by Jonas Savimbi bloodthirsty. At the same time many were recruited mercenaries to fight in Africa .
Pretoria in 1975 also called the parties to draft a Namibian costitucion call the Turnhalle Conferece. Projection of the constitution that was approved by South Africa conference, but rejected by the UN, despite all were called general elections in 1978 won the Democratic Turnhalle match which opened the door to take a pro-US government in Windhoek, South Africa, but the elections were boycotted by SWAPO and declared invalid by the UN.
Although South Africa agree to talks in 1978, knew that the popular support of SWAPO was too big and win the elections called. So I decided to continue the war.
On May 4, 1978 the famous Recce attacked the SWAPO headquarters in Cassinga. The operation was a success for the white South, but the large number of deaths, mostly civilians, makes it an icon of independence that is celebrated every year .
In September 1978 the UN adopted Resolution 435 and South Africa trying to buy time to defeat militarily SWAPO.
Since that time the operations were extended antiguerrilleras increasingly entering into a conventional war. Sharon McNally gathered all the information. Similarly UNITA continued support for this deal more territory in which SWAPO.
In September 1983 the parties held the Namibian Multi-Party Conference (MPC) in 1985 and held meetings with the rebels in Lusaka, but there was no agreement and the party Namib form a national unity government. Two days after the Security Council of UN condemnation and declared illegal the actions of South Africa to control the decisions of Namibia and unilaterally determine their political future.
UNITA continued to support, because if you lost the SWAPO could open over a front several hundred kilometers, but also should increase the direct action.
After the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale 1987 both sides are aware of the suffering exhaustion and decided to initiate peace negotiations. The following year, meet in Geneva Foreign Minister Pik Botha of South Africa and the Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Croker of the United States to achieve a plan leading to independence of Namibia. In the agreement signed in March, they engage in high level meetings between leaders of nations involved and in December 1988 was signed in New York the Trilateral Agreement for New York to implement Resolution 435 of the nearly four years earlier.
Despite SWAPO was about to derail the initiative just started in April 1988 a meeting was held in Mount Etjo Safari Lodge where you signed the Declaration of Mount Etjo again start to Resolution 435.
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