{"id":4910,"date":"2025-02-09T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sam-nujoma-of-namibia-dead-at-95\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:14:36","slug":"sam-nujoma-of-namibia-dead-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sam-nujoma-of-namibia-dead-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Nujoma of Namibia Dead at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the war itself, his SWAPO acquired a reputation for harsh treatment of dissent. In 1976, the organization\u2019s head of information, Andreas Shipanga, was arrested and accused of siding with militant young Namibians who regarded the Nujoma leadership as uninspired and hidebound. The crisis led to vicious purges of the party\u2019s ranks, with hundreds of young would-be freedom fighters detained in camps in Angola and Zambia and reportedly beaten, tortured and even killed, facing often unfounded charges of spying for South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The abuses were not limited to the insurgents. A South African-sponsored police unit called Koevoet \u2014 Afrikaans for crowbar \u2014 hunted down SWAPO guerrillas, displaying the bodies on the mudguards of their armored trucks like hunting trophies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No single event encapsulated the opposing perceptions of Namibia\u2019s war as much as a bloody South African airborne incursion at Cassinga, 160 miles north of the Namibian border in Angola, on May 4, 1978. The episode, which left around 600 dead, is now commemorated as a national holiday, Cassinga Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">South Africa said that its forces struck a military command, control and training center for insurgents, and successfully engaged Cuban forces stationed nearby. SWAPO said the South Africans attacked a refugee transit camp, supporting its assertion with grisly photographs of a mass grave. By most accounts, Mr. Nujoma won the battle of perceptions, gaining him broad international sympathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As early as the 1970s, SWAPO had won the recognition of the United Nations as the \u201csole and authentic representative\u201d of Namibia\u2019s people, buttressing its claim to legitimacy. Crisscrossing the globe as a spokesman for his cause, Mr. Nujoma secured backing from such disparate sources as the Soviet Union, which supplied weapons and training, and Nordic countries, in particular Sweden, which provided humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/08\/obituaries\/sam-nujoma-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the war itself, his SWAPO acquired a reputation for harsh treatment of dissent. 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