47 years after the Cassinga massacre, an indelible crime in African history, we pay tribute to the courageous Cuban internationalists’, said the head of the Cuban diplomacy in X. The fighters ‘confronted apartheid racists to save the Namibian brothers’, he said.

This, the foreign minister said, was a contribution to the ties between Africa and Cuba that endure.

On May 4, 1978, a South African helicopter-borne unit perpetrated an attack against the Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, in Jamba, Angola, resulting in 650 dead and more than 350 wounded, most of them women and children.

Cuban forces stationed in Tchamutete, 15 kilometers south of Cassinga, advanced towards the refugee camp, but along the way were hit by South African aircraft, killing 16 people and injuring 76.

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