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

[Louis Nthenda]

It's an interesting question, Prof.

I think the assumption is that heroes are those who are presumed to have
shown (1) the courage to take / choose the more difficult or tougher or
more unpopular side of a situation on the principle of some higher purpose,
when in fact (2) they were already privileged and didn't have to.

In this narrative, it is taken for granted that, to take HKB's side and
maintain one's privileges at little or no risk was the easier choice and
therefore not heroic.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> 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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