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Rhodesia Declares Independence

This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war with black nationalists

This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war with black nationalists. Ian Findlay, a District Commissioner at the time, explains why Rhodesia tried to hold back the 'winds of change' sweeping across Africa.

(Photo: Armed Rhodesian police on the streets of Bulawayo, Nov 1965. Credit: Terry Fincher/Getty Images/Hulton Archive)

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Wed 12 Nov 2014 08:50GMT
麻豆社 World Service Online

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