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DM2008090807:EAED:SOCIAL:POLITICS:JUN 1962 - It Was Holy Week Slaughter - Riot Cops march in, armed to teeth, after Chifubu slaughter. That night three platoons of riot squad police, bristling firepower, rolled into Chifubu. But the Holy Week War had left it bloodiest mark. Two weeks later, no arrest had been made. The battle for leadership between UNIP and ANC became a real war at Easter when fighting, reprisal raids and killing tore apart the uneasy peace of N.R. It wasn't only political people who were hurt, though. In the most savage of the Easter fighting a mob of about 30 attacked a peaceful home and three men were killed there. (Photograph by Dick Walker BAHA) (KEYSTONE/african.pictures/Baileys African History Archive)