Kamy Squadron | |
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Esquadrão Kamy | |
Active | 1966–1967 |
Country | Angola |
Allegiance | People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola |
Branch | People's Army for the Liberation of Angola |
Type | Column |
Role | Guerrilla warfare |
Size | 150 |
Engagements | Angolan War of Independence |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Benigno Ingo Vieira Lopes |
The Camy Squadron was a guerrilla column formed by fighters from the People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola (EPLA), the armed wing of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in the struggle for Angola's independence.
The squad was especially known for containing five female guerrilla founders of the Organization of Angolan Women - Deolinda Rodrigues, Engrácia dos Santos, Irene Cohen, Lucrécia Paim, and Tereza Afonso - who were captured by the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), supported by the Revolutionary Government of Angola in Exile (GRAE), on 2 March 1967, and subsequently murdered.