[2] These atrocities were committed during the war of liberation struggle of Namibia in the 1980s at detention a centre, others refer to it as SWAPO death camp in Lubango, Angola.
[3][4] Details of what occurred were published in a left wing journal, Searchlight South Africa, with an interview with two of those who had been kept in pits in horrific conditions.
[5] There have been efforts to suppress this chapter of the liberation movement SWAPO in the discourse of contemporary Namibia's public history by the current government.
[7] Some of the notable survivors of these atrocities include Bience Gawanas, Oiva Angula, Kalla Gertze, Sustjie Mbumba, Emma Kambangula, Ndapewa Sisingi Hiskia and Ulrich Jackson Paulino among others.
[11] In the 1970s SWAPO moved to establish various camps in Zamibia along the Namibian border to accommodate trained guerrillas that were to carry out attacks inside Namibia.