The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre : Survivors, Deniers and Injustices /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shigwedha, Vilho (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Refugees.
National liberation movements.
Massacres.
Atrocities.
Atrocites > Afrique du Sud.
Refugies > Namibie.
Refugies > Angola.
Mouvements de liberation nationale > Namibie.
Atrocities > South Africa.
Refugees > Namibia.
Refugees > Angola.
National liberation movements > Namibia.
Massacres > Angola > Cassinga.
South Africa.
Namibia.
Angola > Cassinga.
Angola.
Angola > Histoire > 1978-1990 (Raids sud-africains)
Angola > History > South African Incursions, 1978-1990.
Cassinga (Angola) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Ellen Namhila
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • Introduction
  • 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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