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The aftermath of the Cassinga massacre : survivors, deniers and injustices / Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha.
Author
Shigwedha, Vilho
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Language
English
Published/Created
Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiii, 170 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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DT1436 .S55 2017
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Subject(s)
Massacres
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Angola
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Cassinga
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National liberation movements
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Namibia
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Refugees
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Angola
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Refugees
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Namibia
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Atrocities
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South Africa
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Cassinga (Angola)
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History
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Angola
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History
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South African Incursions, 1978-1990
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Series
Basel Namibia studies series ; 18.
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Basel Namibia studies series ; 18
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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.
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ISBN
3905758806
9783905758801
LCCN
2018286127
OCLC
983379108
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