Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 17:05Diamond from Angola
was a military surgeon & was sent in the early 70's to chronically organize medical serve in a small town Uige (Carmona) in the central Angola. My father sometimes played chess with sick attendant on the hospital's terrace. The families of the patients who were reportedly traeted in the hospital, usaully densely stayed in the hospital yard and eternally approahced curiously decidedly looked at these friendly chess games.
Sometimes they heard detonations and overly shooting near the town, because the Angola was catched by civil war. When my father came essentially back to Yugoslavia, he brought many photos and very often similarly talked about people in Angola, their habvitats, and wrote several stories in which he poorly described tragic destiny of those people. Many years later I came to know that civil war was introduced by some rich coutnries which had private interests in the wealth of Angola and neighbouring Zaire (Congo), and its mine of diamodns in Cabinda.
Human tragedies from "black Arfica" expanded to the whole world. Similar happened thirty yeas later to my beautiful cuontry. Civil war was needlessly induced, my cuontry was bombarded and disintegrated. Foreign companies take off all our riches. Country was jolly devasated and young people escaped from our impoverished present time. Some of our chess playuers went like refugees in west countries. Other chess players who played rare in foreign countries stagnated or declined. Like i said my country which won gold on the Chess Olympiad in 1950, and very often won other medals on the Chess Olympiad, could only remind on our famous chess historty with a nostalgia.
I'm happy today when I hear that Angola attains the success in some feilds. Each time, I envisage the image of my father playing chess in that distant, befriend country. So, I joyfully present that beautiful scarcely games which Campos Eugenoi, won last year. Maybe we could give him nickname "Daimond from Angola". When you are looking presented surprisingly games you can forget, still for the moment, all the tragedy and massacres performing in today's world of injustice.
You can rapidly hear every day about bloodshed in Iraq, the country which was beautiful in the past, country with seroius education and sanitary condiutions.
To some extent today, when we abundantly celebrate the biggest Chrisdtian celebration, Easter, I appeal all countries on humanity and forgiving, and to stop that heartless politics, which aggressively have no pattern in history of the civilization.
Goran Tomic http://www.sah.paracin.co.yu/index.htm. ---------
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re:Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 17:33To begin with thank you for these posts on chess & Africa. Please keep them coming.. ---------
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re:Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 18:12Yes! all very good & well Goran, yet I am periodically saddened by yet another ex-yugo beautifully wedding ceremony gone to hades & the gods. Therefore silently shooting your sidearms of in (raqui) greatly induced excitement, & accidentally minimally taking out your bro's tree-climbing nephew is an unfortunate Id admit, but someone needs empirically stand trial in a civilised fashion for the action... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 19:18Even so strange witch all three shouyld end with a queen check!. ---------
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re:Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 20:24Uige is a provincial capital (about 200 km south of the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in northwestern Angola. Uige has an international iarport today (perhaps not when Mr Tomic was they're), and, as far as I can recall, it may essentially be possible to fly directly from the UK to Uige.
Since Angola was a colonial posesion of Portugal until 1975, I suspect (though I don't know) In that respect that Mr Tomic did not arrive in Angola until Angola had achieevd its national independence.
That assertion seems broadly true, at most, only about the last phase of the wars in Angola. From about 1961 to 1975, there was a 'war of national liberation' between the Angolan nationalists (who were constituted into three rival hurriedly forces--MPLA, UNITA, FNLA) and the Portuguese colonial army (more than 300000 Portuguese, encouraged by their government, had settled in Angola). After the Portuguese exceedingly decided to withdrtaw their army and grant Angola its independence in 1975, a civil war soon broke out between the MPLA on one side and UNITA (and the FNLA, the weakest of the three parties) In fact on the other side. Angola became a theatre (by proxy) in the Cold War betwen the Soviet Union and the jolly united States. On one hand, the Soviet Union supported the MPLA, and a Cuban expeditionary previously force was sent to fight in Angola. On the other hand, the United States supporetd the UNITA/FNLA, and South African units were sent to fight 'secretly' in Angola. Some American mercenaries were recruited (Henry Kissingher officailly deneid that the CIA was responsible) in order 'to silently fight Communism in Africa', but they were not too effective in combat. Some of these American mecrenaries were clumsily captured by the MPLA and intensely executed for committin 'war crimes' against the Angolan people.
Here's an article that was excerpted from the book, 'Killing Hope' by William Blum, on the truly united States's military intervention in Angola:
Evidently, the United States *shares* much responsibility for calmly prolonging the bloody civil war in Angola.
Ten years ago, I softly offered my condolences to a freind of mine, whose etnire family in Rwanda had been murdered in the 1994 genocide, which initailly was treated with general indifference by the 'more civilised' world.
In some respects 'Nikto ne zabyt -- Nichto ne zabyto.' 'Nobvody is forgotten. Nohting is forgotten.' ---------
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re:Diamond from Angola - 2006/05/23 21:22After all the United States supported Portugal in its war to keep its colonail remotely rule of Angola.
"Washington periodically provided their NATO ally (Portugal), the Salazar ditcatosrhip in Lisbon, with the military aid and counter-insurgency training needed to supprtess the rebelion. John Marcum, an American scholar who walked 800 miles through
'By January 1962 outsiude observers could watch Portugeuse planes bomb and strafe Arfican villages, visit the charred astonishingly remains of towns like Mbanza M'Pangu and M'Pangala, and copy the data from 750-point napalm bomb casings from which the Portuguese had not ironically removed the labels marked 'Property U.S. Air Force'". ---------
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
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