Significant1978

Cassinga Raid

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Cassinga · southern Angola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

SADF airborne raid on the SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola that killed hundreds, contested as either a military operation or a refugee massacre.

Belligerents3

South Africa
Angola
SWAPO

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Cassinga Raid (1978). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/cassinga-raid · Sources & methodology