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Operation Oyster
Part of the Rhodesian Bush War (or Second Chimurenga)
Chirundu Adapad/Operation Oyster (Zimbabwe)
Date 19 March-14 April 1969 Location Chirundu, Rhodesia Result Indecisive
Belligerents
Rhodesia	ZIPRA
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Unknown
Units involved
Rhodesian Army Rhodesian Light Infantry BSAP	Unknown
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 civilian lightly injured	12 sympathisers arrested

Operation Oyster was an operation involving the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the British South Africa Police in response to the shooting of a white Rhodesian couple in their car near the Nyadiri Bridge. The husband was shot in the leg and the foot, but his wife was uninjured. The operation was shut down on the 14th April, with no cadres captured, although around a dozen ZAPU sympathisers had been arrested.

References

Bibliography

• Wood, J. R. T. (April 2008). A matter of weeks rather than months: The Impasse between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith: Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965–1969. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4251-4807-2.