Fred Bridgland is a British writer and biographer. During the

Angolan Civil War The Angolan Civil War ( pt, Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war immediately began after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. The war was ...

, he wrote about

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's involvement in

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and in the 1990s he revealed

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abuses committed by

UNITA The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( pt, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought alongside the Popular Movement for ...

rebels under the command of

Jonas Savimbi Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (; 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary politician and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA waged a guerrilla war agai ...

. Critics have derided his biography of Savimbi, ''Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa'', as the work of an apologist. Bridgland has denied this claim in interviews, saying rather he was just a biographer. Bridgland has also written 3 books, including
The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a ContinentJonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa
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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Angolan Civil War People of the South African Border War People of the Angolan Civil War British expatriates in South Africa British war correspondents British writers Prisoners and detainees of Syria {{UK-writer-stub