Wiriyamu Massacre | |
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Location | Wiriyamu, Mozambique |
Date | 16 December 1972 |
Attack type | shooting |
Deaths | 400[1] |
Injured | Unknown |
Perpetrators | Portuguese Army PIDE/DGS |
The Wiriyamu Massacre or Operation Marosca was a massacre of the civilian population of the village of Wiriyamu in Mozambique by Portuguese soldiers in December 1972.
In September 2022, Portuguese prime minister António Costa called it "an unforgivable act that dishonours Portuguese history".[2]