Cabo Delgado: Chai Museum completely destroyed by terrorists – Watch

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Cabo Delgado: Chai Museum completely destroyed by terrorists – Watch

8:57 CAT | 20 Aug 2021

Photo: TVM

The entire collection of the Museum collection of Chai, in Macomia district, was destroyed by terrorists.

The Museum Director believes in the restoration of the historic site, which was the target of several terrorist attacks.

He hadn’t seen the Museum for around one year. The director and other Museum workers fled Chai in the end of June 2020.

He expresses his shock at the sight of his Museum completely destroyed.

“The footage, the photographs, of the liberation war, of the fighters, all the collection we had …we lost everything,” he tells TVM.

The Chai Museum collection included the first weapons used in the liberation war and the first flag hoisted by the Mozambique Liberation Front in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

The director of the Chai Museum recounts how he fled the village (“on the 28th”) and managed to reach Muambula, four days later, with around “60 to 70 people”. He says he then found transportation to Muidumbe district headquarters and, from there, went to Mueda.

Other infrastructure in the village has been destroyed. TVM footage shows a health post and the Frelimo party headquarters.

Chai is known is the place where “the first shot” of the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism was fired .

Watch the TVM report.