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September Today in Terrorism

September 3, 1978: Aircraft shootdown and massacre in Rhodesia

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.

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June Today in Terrorism

June 27, 1974: Murder of missionaries in Rhodesia

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)