The 1964 Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny and the British Armed Intervention that Ended It

From: RUSI Journal | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Laurence, Tony; MacRae, Christopher | Copyright information

The British tri-service operation in January 1964, which put an end to the five-day mutiny by the army of newly-independent Tanganyika, attracted a good deal of attention at the time - but was soon forgotten.1 Other, graver world events soon overshadowed it. For diametrically opposite reasons, neither the British nor the Tanganyikan governments of the day wanted to make too much of it. Moreover, the fact that simultaneous but less serious military unrest in neighbouring Kenya and Uganda was d...

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