Major Reid-Daly Interview | Selous Scouts Commander | Rhodesian Army | Inkomo Barracks | March 1977
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- Early March 1977.
Interview with Major Ronald Reid-Daly (1928-2010), the Commander of the Selous Scouts Special Forces Unit of the Rhodesian Army at Inkomo Barracks in Salisbury, the capital city of Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe).
After briefly referring to his military background which included a period serving in a Rhodesian Squadron of the British Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), Major Reid-Daly issued a denial by Black African Nationalist organisations that the Selous Scouts had murdered Roman Catholic missionaries in an operation designed to blame the Nationalists.
Interview Transcript:
Reid-Daly: "I volunteered for a spell in the Far East as part of the Commonwealth effort in the Malayan campaign. The Rhodesians formed a squadron in the British S.A.S. and I was with them for two years, and this of course, was a tremendous training ground for me, and gave me a very good background to the knowledge I have at this time on soldiering in general."
Reporter: "Your men have been accused by African nationalists of killing missionaries in this country. Have you any comment on this?"
Reid-Daly: "Yes, we don't like this sort of news at all. This is totally untrue, totally unjustified, and I think it's a very feeble attempt on behalf of the terrorists and their henchmen to switch the heat on us. We have a certain mystique, I must say, because we keep a very tight security on the unit. We don't like our African members in particular being known by face or name, and I think this has led to rumour-mongering and speculation, and this has been seized upon by the opposition as a very good means of covering up their own brutalities."
Reporter: "Major Reid-Daly, thank you."
Reid-Daly: "Thank you very much."
Note:
The Selous Scouts, which was multi-racial in membership, specialised in irregular warfare. Its methods included infiltration, assassination, abduction, torture, sabotage and blackmail.
It is also claimed to have practised psychological warfare. It was suspected of orchestrating "False Flag" operations designed to implicate and discredit the African guerrillas. One suspected incident concerns the aforementioned murder of European Roman Catholic Missionaries in 1977. Athough this attack and other attacks on missionaries were blamed on Black Nationalist groups, responsibility for the atrocities remain in doubt.
However, evidence that bomb attacks on churches were carried out by the unit in an attempt to discredit Black Nationalist organisations came in February 1980 after two members of the Scouts died when a bomb wrecked their car on Thursday, February 14th -the same night that three other bombs had been planted at Salisbury churches.
The Selous Scouts were effective in terms of eliminating Black Nationalist guerrillas. They had a "kill rate" which was far in excess of that of the regular Rhodesian Army. The unit was formed in 1973 and disbanded in 1980 when Rhodesia was re-constituted as Zimbabwe.
The unit's motto was "Pamwe Chete", which means "All Together" in the Shona language.
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This footage is golden. The Selous Scouts still maintain the record for one of the hardest Special Forces selection which has ever existed worldwide and some will go as far as to call them, the Kings of Counter-insurgency Bush Warfare.
Notable for fusing conventional warfare with traditional African bushcraft and tracking techniques. The white soldiers in their ranks had to speak either a dialect of Shona or Ndebele.
Um, YOU TWO CHAPS ARE CONNOISSEURS OF TRUTH
They fought against Russian made T55 tanks with Ratels.. They were out numbers and out guned..! They fought cumminist not black poeple the army was not only whites.. They were good poeple fighting evil
@@geno7107 Rhodesian Ratels?
You must be a white supremacist! /sarcasm
Perfidious Albion at his work again! The Sealous Scouts were the finest counter-insurgency force ever!
A counter insurgency legend! Rest Easy LT Col Ron Reid Daily
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Politics aside, the selous scouts were some of the best warriors Africa has ever seen.
Selfie scouts, seems like a tough regiment
@@faissal8997 death to auto correct I tell ya. They can turn the simplest of comments into farce lol
@@faissal8997 Indeed they wete
Rhodesia had two excellent SF units, the multi-racial Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian SAS, a whites-only regiment.
Salute to Rhodesians!
A soldier through and through.
Absolute legend. Would love to have met him. Pamwe chete.
They are the best bush force ever
Love the video ; the description not so much .
BEAUTIFUL.
WE WHO SERVE.
Did anyone of that era knows Ken Joubert he was also a Selous Scout, Thanks
Glory and Honor..
Selous Scouts ..best book ever written
The major looks like he is going to cut that dudes hair lickety split
Who was better, the SAS Soldier or the Selous Scout Soldier?
Different missions!
Scouts are the hardest. I was Elite Soldier in Germany. Could Not Pass the Test. No one of us could Pass it. The hardest of them all. No match for an selous scout.pamwe Chete.we tried to eat the Monkey. We all vomitted. No one could eat the monkeys. How on Earth den you eat it
First thing Mugabe did once coming to power, Getting rid of these terrorists without a pass out parade.
That is not correct. Scouts became 4(Holding Unit )RAR then almost immediately 1 Para. The regiment remaind intact with the same personnel. The only units demobilised, disbanded and gone forever were the territorial regiments.
Only to be ruled by another bunch of terrorists, except that you lot destroyed the country, much like the rest of Africa...
@@tightcamper at least you know they were the real terrorists. Foreign mercenary scum killing our people
Mugabe is the terrorist!!!
@brianmuvuti2102 Who taught you such mistruth?