The aftermath of the Cassinga massacre : survivors, deniers and injustices / Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha.

Author
Shigwedha, Vilho [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xiii, 170 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword / by Ellen Namhila
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • Overview
    • The attack
    • The rescuing task
    • The Cubans' intervention
    • The following day
    • Why Cassinga?
    • The systematic planning to kill civilians
    • Mass Burials : the "Iconic Photograph" and uther witness accounts
    • Remembering Cassinga and the challenge of representation
    • The "iconic photograph" and the search for the familiar
    • The purpose of picturing the open mass grave and contested representation of violence
    • The attackers' photographs and the eyewitness testimony
    • "Credible coverage" of the attack
    • "I personally saw him killing wounded civilians!"
    • Memory of the wounded body, oral testimony and the other
    • Scars are visible, the pain is hidden
    • Damaged bodies, long suffering and passive victimhood
    • The aftermath of Cassinga and the unapologetic perpetrators : guilty or innocent?
    • The day of parading and medals
    • The aftermath of violence, framed reconciliation, and injustice
    • The abandoned cassinga mass graves and breytenbach's visit
    • Conclusion
    • Appendices
    • Statement by the administrator-general for SWA, Judge MT Steyn
    • Statement by the commander general, gommander Southwest Africa, General Major JJ Geldenhuys, S.M.
    • Suggested approach for statement by Minister of Defence & the guidelines for statement by GOC SWA
    • Some photographs taken by the SADF during the cassinga attack.
    • Extract from the transcription of the author's interview with Rev. Samwel Mateus Shiininge about his experience of the 'Vietnam' attack.
    • UNICEF report on Namibian refugees at Cassinga before the attack.
    • "Cassinga battle account reveals biased claptrap : a former SADF Colonel who led forces in controversial battle speaks out"
    • Ellen Namhila's response to Jan Breytenbach's article "I was at cassinga and it was not a military base"
    • "Bullets do not lie, " jan breytenbach's response to Ellen Namhila's letter.
    • Jan breytenbach's role in regional and other conflicts
    • The SADF torture and deliberate killing of the suspected SWAPO fighters as told by lance corporal sean callaghan & warrant officer John Deegan, former SADF soldiers :
    • "Cassinga events need to be documented"
    • "Don't scrap cassinga day"
    • Abbreviations
    • List of figures
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 3905758806
    • 9783905758801
    LCCN
    2018286127
    OCLC
    983379108
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