Significant1972

Wiriyamu Massacre

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Tete Province

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Portuguese commando massacre exposed by Adrian Hastings, a hinge event in the discrediting of Lisbon's African wars.

Belligerents1

Portuguese Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Wiriyamu Massacre (1972). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/wiriyamu-massacre · Sources & methodology