{"id":2353,"date":"2022-03-15T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:25:43","slug":"hidden-history-liberation-struggles-assassination-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/2022\/03\/15\/hidden-history-liberation-struggles-assassination-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden History \u2013 Liberation Struggles Assassination (Introduction)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486.jpg 648w, https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Slavery-in-Africa2_648_486-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, 648px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (March 6<sup>th<\/sup> 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Assassination<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of World War II marked a sea-change in the struggles for independence. Colonial powers turned largely European conflicts into world wars, but there was a price to pay as the colonies demanded independence in return for their contributions. As independence approached, so did political assassinations of anti-colonial liberation struggle icons. The trend continued even after independence was secured too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these crimes plunged their countries and regions into chaos like Burma\u2019s General Aung San in 1947 and Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands\u2019 Pan-Africanist leader Am\u00edlcar Cabral in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Disregard of International Law<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Political assassinations were not limited to independence activists such as Cabral. They happened in the colonial power too. Portugal lost its African colonies after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 signalled a radical change in policy. However in the previous decade three serious assassinations, a kidnap attempt and a massacre at nearby villages in Mozambique demonstrated the policies of the Portuguese dictatorships of Ant\u00f3nio de Oliveira Salazar and Marcello Jos\u00e9 das Neves Alves Caetano towards opposition at home and abroad. Both Salazar and Caetano showed total disregard for international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assassination of former General Humberto da Silva Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreiro de Campos in Spain in 1965 showed that and Operation Green Sea was no aberration either. It attempted to seize Guinean president Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9, Kwame Nkrumah and Am\u00edlcar Cabral. That mission in November 1970 by Francophone dissidents, the National Liberation Front of Guinea and the Portuguese planned to free Portuguese prisoners as well as capture the revolutionary leaders. The mission failed and led to reprisals by Tour\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The massacre of several Mozambicans in the Wiriyamu Triangle in 1972, which was committed by the Portuguese forces intent on maintaining colonial control over Mozambique<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> shows the lengths that the Portuguese dictatorship was prepared to go to in order to cling on to its ill-gotten gains in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> For further details on this atrocity see <strong>The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013<\/strong> by Mustafa Dahda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (March 6th 2022) Assassination The end of World War II marked a sea-change in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[771,770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}