User:Adapad/Operation Oyster
| Operation Oyster | |||||||
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| Part of the Rhodesian Bush War (or Second Chimurenga) | |||||||
  Chirundu Adapad/Operation Oyster (Zimbabwe) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Rhodesia |
 ZIPRA | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Unknown |
Unknown | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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BSAP | Unknown | ||||||
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| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 civilian lightly injured | 12 sympathisers arrested | ||||||
Operation Oyster was an operation involving the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the British South Africa Police in response to the shooting of a white Rhodesian couple in their car near the Nyadiri Bridge. The husband was shot in the leg and the foot, but his wife was uninjured. The operation was shut down on the 14th April, with no cadres captured, although around a dozen ZAPU sympathisers had been arrested.[1]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Wood, J. R. T. (April 2008). A matter of weeks rather than months: The Impasse between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith: Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965–1969. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4251-4807-2.