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

[Louis Nthenda]

Prof, suppose we scale heroism in opposing a dictatorship 1 to 10 with 10
being taking up arms in open rebellion. Dictatorship may be of the left
like Stalinism or Maoism or of the right like Nazism, Fascism or HKB type.
We will in fact find heroes within the system. These may be in high
position but secretly working to sabotage the system and maybe providing
secret information to the rebels (like Noriega of Mikuyu who featured on
these pages). Others may have details of the armed rebellion but refuse to
tell the authorities while they themselves do nothing. Etc etc.

But your question I take it is: what would we call people on the other side
who believe in the system and will tie up so-called rebels and take them to
the Thsiri River and throw them to the crocodiles; people who will inform
on others to the authorities; people pretending to be on the rebel side but
in fact working to betray them. Can't we call these heroes too? They are
taking different kinds of risks - risking the contempt of their friends.

Am I interpreting your question correctly?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> 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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> (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
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> Private Bag 360, Chichiri
> Blantyre 3
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