Pansau na Isna

Picture Pansau Na Isnas in the Liberation Museum in Bissau

Grave for Pansau Na Isna at the monument for the heroines and heroes in Bissau

Pansau Na Isna (* around 1938 on the island of N'Fanda, Tombali region , Portuguese Guinea ; † 1969 or 1970 near Nhacra , Portuguese Guinea ) was a Guinea-Bissau resistance fighter of the PAIGC .

Life

Pansau Na Isna was born around 1938 on the small island of N'Fanda in southern Guinea-Bissau, in the Tombali region, to a Balanta family. Little is known about Isna's life and career, except that he joined the PAIGC resistance and independence movement in his youth. As a guerrillero, he became particularly well-known in the Batalha de Como (Battle for the island of Como) in 1963, when a troop of PAGIC fighters surprised a Portuguese military post on the strategically important island of Como in southern Guinea-Bissau and took the island . The Portuguese later recaptured the island at the Operação Tridente .

In 1965 he led the PAIGC troops against the Portuguese army in Balana and Gandembel, and the resistance movement took control of the entire south of the Portuguese colony . In 1969 the PAIGC moved Isna to the northern front, where he also led PAIGC fighters. In 1969 (or according to the grave plaque 1970) Pansau Na Isna died in an attack by the Portuguese in the town of Nhacra , not far from the capital Bissau.

Pansau Na Isna is one of the heroes named and glorified by the PAIGC. In the headquarters of the Guinea-Bissau Army ( Fort Amura ) in the capital Bissau there is a memorial for 10 Guinea-Bissau heroines and heroes, Pansau Na Isna is also commemorated there by name.

Web links

Commons : Pansau Na Isna - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Isna, Pansau Na (? –1969) . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6 , pp. 238 .

personal data
SURNAME	Isna, Pansau Na
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Guinea-Bissau resistance fighter of the PAIGC
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	N'Fanda Island, Tombali Region, Portuguese Guinea
DATE OF DEATH	1969 or 1970
Place of death	near Nhacra , Portuguese Guinea

[:0-1] Isna, Pansau Na (? –1969) . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6 , pp. 238 .