- (Portuguese:
Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde,
PAIGC) is a
political party in Guinea-Bissau.
Originally formed to peacefully...
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bases and were
patently unable to
dislodge PAIGC from the so-called
liberated zones. In
September 1973, the
PAIGC-dominated People's
National ****embly unilaterally...
- Guinea-Conakry and
staunch PAIGC ally, to
capture the
leader of the
PAIGC, Amílcar Cabral, and to cut off
supply lines to
PAIGC insurgents. The operation...
-
Saturnino da
Costa was
named acting President of
PAIGC,
replacing Vieira.
Vieira was
expelled from
PAIGC at a
party congress in
September 1999 for "treasonable...
- the
PAIGC launched the Guinea-Bissau War of
Independence on 23
January 1963.: 289
Unlike guerrilla movements in
other Portuguese colonies, the
PAIGC rapidly...
- community, as well as the
soldiers enlisted in the
PAIGC's military wing. When not fighting,
PAIGC soldiers tilled and
ploughed the
fields alongside the...
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Independence of
Guinea and Cape
Verde (
PAIGC), Amílcar Cabral,
destruction of the
naval and air ****ets of the
PAIGC and its
Guinean supporters, and the rescue...
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pitted 10,000
Soviet Bloc-supported
PAIGC soldiers against 35,000
Portuguese and
African troops. By 1972, the
PAIGC controlled much of
Portuguese Guinea...
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African Party for the
Independence of
Guinea and Cape
Verde (
PAIGC). In the
early 1960s,
PAIGC launched an anti-colonial
guerrilla war
against the Portuguese...
- Cape Verde), the
PAIGC. In 1961, when a
purely political campaign for
independence had made
predictably little progress, the
PAIGC adopted guerrilla...
