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1976: Costas Georgiou and three other mercenaries in Angola
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On this date in 1976, three Britons and one American were shot in Angola by a military police squad for murders committed as mercenaries earlier during the year.
They were among 13 foreigners sentenced at the Luanda Trial, which occurred on the pivot of Angola’s transition from generation-long anti-colonial insurrection on towards generation(s)-long civil war. Between them, more than half a million Angolans died, but this date belonged to a couple of unrepresentative Anglos.
Long story short, the immediate aftermath of Angolan independence in late 1975 was a scramble for control among the several factions who had been fighting the Portuguese … along with a scramble among interested outside states to line up their allies in this resource-rich Cold War prize..
Ex-SAS hardman ordered comrades execution after seeing brains blown out in massacre
WARNING: Graphic content. Peter McAleese, 78, told how he was shocked to find 14 mercenaries just lying there mowed down in the street while investigating a bloody massacre in Africa
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ON shelves in my study sit a collection of books. Their titles are at one and same time both colourful, and malevolent. The Whores of War, Licensed to Kill, Congo Warriors, The Wonga Coup, and so the epithets adorning their front covers go on. No less colourful and malevolent are the real-life characters who inhabit the pages of what I’ve come to call my ‘mercenary’ collection. “Mad” Mike Hoare, Jean “Black Jack” Schramme, Costas Georgiou alias “Colonel Callan”, and Bob Denard, who revelled in the nickname les Affreux – the Dreadful – and whose life is said to have inspired Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 novel about mercenaries in Africa that was subsequently made into a fictional action movie – The Dogs of War.