The Communists have Cuban and Soviet advisers etc. Another group has predominately British mercenaries. A former Portuguese colony is becoming independent and the various factions are fighting one another. Ten British, two American, and an Argentinean mercenary were captured and put on trial in the capital city of Angola on June 28, 1976. 1976: Mercenaries trial begins in Angola The trial of 13 mercenaries - 10 of them British - has begun in Angola with the public still in the dark over the exact charges. It concerns the British mercenaries out in Angola during the conflict of 1974. A further nine men were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 16 to 30 years at the People's Revolutionary Tribunal in Luanda. After a trial, in Luanda, Angola, sentencing commenced on the 28 June 1976. Aegis Defence Services, for instance, has experience in 18 African countries, including resource-rich Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR). Tomkins and McAleese assembled a team of 12 British mercenaries. Costas Georgiou. Death sentence for the British Mercenaries in Angola. ↑ 1976: Death sentence for mercenaries, On This Day - 28 June, BBC News, accessed 1 July 2010. ↑ 1976: Mercenaries trial begins in Angola, On this Day - 11 June, BBC News, accessed 1 July 2010. They are led by a man of Greek Cypriot origin. 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 . 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. Three British mercenaries and an American were sentenced to death, with the remaining captured mercenaries were sentenced to between 16 and 30 years in jail. Those sentenced to death were Andrew McKenzie, John Barker, Costas Georgiou, and Daniel Gearhert. The Angolan authorities have described them as "the lowest of human characteristics in volunteering to kill, destroy and commit criminal acts in exchange for adequate payment". An ex-British Army man who is given the alias of Callen. Three Britons and an American have been sentenced to death by firing squad for their mercenary roles during the Angolan civil war. ↑ Marvine Howe, New York Times, 6 June 1976, page 13, Column 1.
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