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This article reconsiders the responsibility of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the international community in the return to war after the under tensions elections of 1992 and the signature of the Lusaka Protocol in 1994. Despite the intervention of the UN in both peace processes, the military option prevailed for both sides. This option also resulted from the lack of neutrality of Troika observers and from the complicity of numerous countries in helping UNITA by-pass the embargoes and helping the government to rearm. Hence, UNITA’s diminishing political and military capacity allowed the MPLA to dismantle this movement by eliminating its leader.