Omugulugwombashe, 1966
At Omugulugwombashe, in the west of Owambo, SWAPO's first guerrilla group had set up a training camp. On 26 August 1966, South African forces attacked it by helicopter: the first battle of a war that would run for more than two decades.
The date became the founding moment of the armed struggle, and 26 August is marked today as Heroes' Day. The site is a national monument.
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Sources: Standard histories of the beginning of the armed struggle; the full unit ships with Module 2 of the Liberation Struggle course.