Tag: Zimbabwe

September 3, 1978: Aircraft shootdown and massacre in Rhodesia

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2021-09-03
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Another Air Rhodesia plane, seen here in the early 1970s, which was shot down in February of 1979 (Photo: veteranrhodie on flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

On September 3, 1978 members of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army shot down an Air Rhodesia flight killing 38 passengers and crew.

Tags massacre, Shooting, terrorism, Today in terrorism, Zimbabwe

June 27, 1974: Murder of missionaries in Rhodesia

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2021-06-27
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Image from "My travels in North West Rhodesia" by G.E. Butt, 1910 (Photo: Public Domain)

On June 27, 1978 two German Jesuit missionaries, were shot dead in cold blood by ZIPRA terrorists in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Tags Africa, Shooting, terrorism, Today in terrorism, Zimbabwe