The Rhodesian Bush War (c. 1965–79) took place in what was then Great Britain’s colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The war was precipitated by the white minority-led government’s resistance to British efforts to grant independence to the colony with Black majority rule, leading the government to make the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain, as Rhodesia, in 1965 in order to preserve the dominance of the white minority. Britain declared the UDI illegal, and Rhodesia’s declaration did not have international support or recognition. This occurred against the backdrop of decades of oppression of the Black African population there, and Black nationalist groups waged an insurgency against the white minority-led government.
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