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Book SynopsisMustafah Dhada is Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield, USA, and Research Associate at the Center for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal. He is the author of
Warriors at Work (1993), and
The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013 (Bloomsbury, 2015), which won the American Historical Association's Martin A. Klein Prize in African History.
Trade ReviewUrgent, compelling, and haunting, this is a powerfully indicting collection of testimonials expertly edited, introduced and contextualized. In interviews spanning the voices of perpetrators and survivors and witnesses who collected, smuggled out, and revealed the facts of Wiriyamu, this painstaking oral history reconstructs both the truth of the massacre and the story of its exposure. * AbdoolKarim Vakil, Lecturer in Contemporary Portuguese History, King's College London, UK *
This collection of oral testimonies constitutes a major body of work. It is an irrefutable proof of the massacre which took place in this area and contains all the numerous elements which confirms Portugal’s genocidal strategy along the river Zambezi since 1972. The research reveals sufficient evidence for the UN to reopen the dossier on Portugal’s genocidal practices during the Fascist era. A dossier that without any debate, was inexplicably closed in 1974. * Joao-Manuel Neves, Lecturer in Portuguese, University of Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, France *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Colonial War and The Wiriyamu Triangle 3. The Anatomy of the Massacre 4. Gathering and Surveying the Evidence 5. The First Public Outing of the Wiriyamu Narrative 6. The Final Revelation 7. The British Fact-Checkers 8. The Final Act - Witness Protection 9. Conclusion Works Cited Index
