Not to be confused with Operation Overlord.
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]
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- ↑ Cilliers, J.K. Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia. Sidney: Croom Helm, 1985.
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