[Civsoc-mw] HEROES OF OCTOBER 1967 MWANZA ‘WAR'

[Adamson S. Muula]

Were there also heroes to remember on the Malawi (Kamuzu) side? Or the
heroes we talk about were only on the Chisiza side?

On 12 October 2017 at 18:17, Paliani <palianic at yahoo.com> wrote:

> *A Tribute to the Unsung heroes*
>
> This month of October, exactly marks 50 years after the ‘war’ in Mwanza
> between Malawi’ security forces on one front and an armed group of 16 under
> the umbrella of Ufulu Umodzi Malawi Party (UUMA) led by Malawi’s former
> Home Affairs Minister Yatuta Chisiza on the opposite front.
>
>
> It was during this ‘war’ that Yatuta Chisiza and his lieutenant Lutengano
> Mwahimba were shot dead while 5 of their compatriots escaped successfully
> to Zambia as one committed suicide when 8 had been captured alive, later
> tried at the high court in Blantyre, hanged (except one among them who
> became a state witness) and finally buried in unmarked graves in Zomba in
> 1969.
>
> For more:
>
> http://kemetforum.com/?p=387
>
>
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-- 
Adamson S. Muula PhD, MPH, MBBS, CPH, PGDip (Public Health Ethics), PGDip
(Global Health), PGD (Palliative Care)
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Malawi, College of Medicine
School of Public Health and Family Medicine
Department of Public Health
Chimutu Building Room 850
Private Bag 360, Chichiri
Blantyre 3
Malawi
Email: amuula at medcol.mw
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