Blacks 'massacred’
NZPA-Reuter Salisbury Twenty-five black civilians have been massacred in a war zone in northern Rhodesia, the Rhodesian military headquarters has announced in Salisbury. The military apportioned no direct blame for the killings, on the night of November 4, but said a group of nationalist guerrillas had (been seen in the area shortly before the massacre. It said that the scene of
the massacre, which was not revealed, had been cleared of spent cartridge cases, but there were indications that Communist weapons had been used.
Guerrillas of the Patriotic Front alliance are equipped with communist-made weapons. Both wings of the Patriotic Front — Robert Mugabe’s Mozambique-based army and Joshua Nkomo’s Zambia-based forces—are active in the northern opera tional area.
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Press, 8 November 1978, Page 8
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