- Ovamboland People's Organization
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The Ovamboland People's Organization is a defunct nationalist organization that advocated an independent Ovamboland (Namibia). Andimba Toivo ya Toivo and Sam Nujoma founded the OPO in 1959. A year later, the organization sought a pan-ethnic independence for the country and formed into the South West Africa People's Organization.[1]
On December 10, 1959, police shot and killed 11 protesters in Windhoek's Old Location,[2], forcing OPO leaders to go into exile and create the South-West Africa People's Organization.[3]
References
- ^ Dictionary of African historical biography "Sam Nujoma", Page 280, 1989
- ^ "History of Old Location and Katutura". Namibweb. http://www.namibweb.com/hiskat.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ Peter N. Stearns and William Leonard Langer. The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged, 2001. Page 1070.
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