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inflicted approximately 1,300
casualties (including up to 300 killed) on the
Katangan force, with no
deaths amongst "A" Company.
Prior to independence, the Congo...
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Katanga and, with the help of
Belgian partisans,
executed by the
separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse Tshombe. He was seen as a
martyr for the pan-African...
- On 17
January 1961,
Lumumba was
handed over to
Katangan authorities and
executed by Belgian-led
Katangan troops. A 2001
investigation by Belgium's Parliament...
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strong Katangan force on 17
September having run out of ammunition.
During the
action the UN
forces had
inflicted heavy casualties on the
Katangans and their...
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pressure on the
Katangan government to
abide by the plan timetable.
Still doubting the
likelihood of a
peaceful resolution of the
Katangan secession, he...
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Western intelligence agencies to
imprison Lumumba and hand him over to
Katangan authorities who
executed him by
firing squad. In
British Guiana, the leftist...
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plotting a
comeback from his
exile in Spain, some 2,000 of Tshombe's
former Katangan gendarmes, led by mercenaries,
mutinied in
Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville)...
- 6 (Nov/Dec 2010),
Volume 18. Brownell,
Josiah "Diplomatic Lepers: The
Katangan and
Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the
United States and the
Politics of...
-
Patrice Lumumba,
first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo-Léopoldville, was
murdered by Belgian-supported
Katangan separatists in 1961....
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Katanga during the 1960–1963
Congolese civil war.
Moise Tshombe proclaimed Katangan independence in July 1960.
Congolese leaders arrested him and
charged him...
