Bicesse Accords

President José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA and Jonas Savimbi of UNITA signed the accord in Lisbon, Portugal on May 31, 1991.[1][2] UNITA rejected the official results of the 1992 presidential election as rigged and renewed their guerrilla war.The accords attempted to demobilize the 152,000 active fighters and integrate the remaining government troops and UNITA rebels into a 50,000-strong Angolan Armed Forces (FAA).[3] While the UN declared the presidential election generally "free and fair," fighting continued.[3] 120,000 people were killed in the first eighteen months following the 1992 election, nearly half the number of casualties of the previous sixteen years of war.
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