Operation Overload

Rhodesian Bush War

Battle of Sinoia (1966) Attack on Altena Farm (1972) Operation Overload (1974) Operation Eland (1976) Operation Dingo (1977) Woolworths bombing (1977) Air Rhodesia Flight 825 (1978) Operation Snoopy (1978) Operation Gatling (1978) Air Rhodesia Flight 827 (1979) Operation Uric (1979) Operation Miracle (1979)

Operation Overload was a military operation by the Rhodesian Army that took place over six weeks starting on 27 July 1974. The operation resulted in the movement of 49,960 people into twenty-one protected villages in the Chiweshe Tribal Trust Land. The movement resulted in the deaths of a few of the people being moved.^[1]

References

^ Cilliers, J.K. Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia. Sidney: Croom Helm, 1985.

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Operation Overload