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ZIPRA was formed during the 1960s by the nationalist leader Jason Moyo, sometime deputy of Joshua Nkomo . Because ZAPU's political strategy relied more heavily on negotiations than armed force, ZIPRA did not develop as quickly or elaborately as ZANLA , the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ), although by 1979 it had an estimated 20,000 combatants, almost all based in camps around Lusaka , Zambia (ref: Rasmussen & Rubert). Beside the overall political ideologies, the main differences between ZIPRA and ZANLA were that
In 1978 and 1979 ZIPRA downed two civilian passenger planes of Air Rhodesia , killing a total of 102 passengers and crew. These successes drew condemnation from Rhodesian church and political leaders (but not from international church and political leaders), especially for the manner in which some survivors of the first crash, including women and children, had been killed by ZIPRA cadres inspecting the wreckage. REFERENCES Rasmussen, R. K., & Rubert, S. C., 1990. ''A Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe '', Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, United States of America. |
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