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==1979 bombing== | ==1979 bombing== | ||
On 23 February 1979, Rhodesian planes bombed the camp in what the Rhodesian Government said was its continuing effort to prevent guerrillas from sabotaging elections scheduled for April 1979. First reports were that there were heavy casualties. | On 23 February 1979, Rhodesian planes bombed the camp in what the Rhodesian Government said was its continuing effort to prevent guerrillas from sabotaging elections scheduled for April 1979. First reports were that there were heavy casualties. It was the heaviest raid against a nationalist installation since Rhodesian guerrillas of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner Feb. 12, killing all 59 persons aboard. Nkomo's guerrillas are based in neighboring Zambia.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/02/24/rhodesia-bombs-crowded-camp-in-zambia/3e76e867-98dc-4417-99a9-d738028d983b/ Rhodesia Bombs Crowded Camp In Zambia], Washington Post, 24 February 1979</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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The Nampundwe camp was one of the largest Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) black nationalist camps in Zambia with as many as 14,000 men, women and children living in it. The camp was located about 45km west of Lusaka.
1979 bombing
On 23 February 1979, Rhodesian planes bombed the camp in what the Rhodesian Government said was its continuing effort to prevent guerrillas from sabotaging elections scheduled for April 1979. First reports were that there were heavy casualties. It was the heaviest raid against a nationalist installation since Rhodesian guerrillas of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner Feb. 12, killing all 59 persons aboard. Nkomo's guerrillas are based in neighboring Zambia.[1]
See also
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- ↑ Rhodesia Bombs Crowded Camp In Zambia, Washington Post, 24 February 1979
