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

[Adamson S. Muula]

May be it would not apply in other circumstances, but the understanding
could be interesting if applied to:

Britain vs Nazi Germany
Daesh vs the world?

On 13 October 2017 at 01:25, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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-- 
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
Cell: +265 884233486
Publications list: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Muula
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