The war Hostile_encounter was a power struggle between two former liberation movements , the communist People 's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) and the anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence Creating of Angola ( UNITA ) .

The MPLA and UNITA had different roots in Angolan society and mutually incompatible leaderships , despite their shared aim Aiming of ending Process_end colonial rule .

A third movement , the National Front for the Liberation of Angola ( FNLA ) , having fought Hostile_encounter the MPLA with UNITA during the war Hostile_encounter for independence , played Participation almost no role in the Civil War Hostile_encounter .

By the time the MPLA achieved Achieve victory in 2002 , more than 500,000 people had died Death and over one million had been internally displaced Destroying .