Luanda - The UN observer mission in Angola (MONUA) has begun an investigation into last week's massacre of 215 people, officials said yesterday as the EU imposed sanctions on the UNITA former rebel movement.
MONUA has sent military observers and police to Mussuku, in north-east Angola, to compile an independent report on the slaughter, blamed by the government on the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which has denied responsibility. A statement from the EU presidency in Brussels said the sanctions against UNITA would include a ban on imports of diamonds from Angola not accompanied by a government certificate of origin.