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Record 1 2021-05-31

English

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OBS

Cassinga Day is a national public holiday in Namibia remembering the Cassinga Massacre. Commemorated annually on May 4, the date remembers those (approximately 600) killed in 1978 when the South African Defence Force attacked a [South-West Africa People's Organization] base at Cassinga in southern Angola.

French

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OBS

Commémoration du massacre perpétré en 1978 par la South African Defence Force lors d'un raid sur un camp de la [South-West Africa People's Organization] en Angola.

Spanish

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