The family of Jonas Savimbi, who died UNITA leader filed a lawsuit for defamation against the subsidiary in France of the US company Activision Blizzard, which publishes the game “Call of Duty” and consider that Savimbi is presented as a “barbarian” in the 2012 edition, entitled “Black Ops II”.
The three sons of former opponent of the Angolan regime have now decided to move forward with the lawsuit and require the payment of a compensation amounting to one million euros, according to AFP.
Jonas Savimbi led for decades the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), in opposition to the regime of Luanda and the ruling party, the MPLA (People’s Liberation Movement of Angola). He was killed in 2012 in the province of Moxico, eastern Angola, during an operation of the Angolan Armed Forces which also resulted in the deaths of members of his bodyguard.
In the 2012 edition of the game “Call of Duty”, Savimbi ally emerges as the hero of the game, Alex Mason, a mission in Kuando Kubango in 1986, during the Angolan civil war. Savimbi Masona help rescue a CIA agent who was taken prisoner in the jungle.
Carole Enfert, family lawyer, says Savimbi is represented in the game “like a big idiot who wants to kill everybody” when in fact, maintains, was “a political leader and strategist.” Although described by former US President Ronald Reagan as a freedom fighter, the guerrilla has always been a controversial figure in Angola.
Activision Blizzard rejects the charges, considering that the game is Savimbi as a ” good guy “and as what he was:” A figure of Angolan history, a head of guerrillas who fought against the MPLA “
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