- the help of
Belgian mercenaries,
tortured and
executed by the
separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse Tshombe. In 2002,
Belgium formally apologised for...
-
mercenaries within the area. By
August 1961,
tensions between the UN and
Katangan leadership had
deteriorated due to the
arrival of both O’Brien and an Indian...
- 6 (Nov/Dec 2010),
Volume 18. Brownell,
Josiah "Diplomatic Lepers: The
Katangan and
Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the
United States and the
Politics of...
-
Western intelligence agencies to
imprison Lumumba and hand him over to
Katangan authorities who
executed him by
firing squad. In
British Guiana, the leftist...
-
pressure on the
Katangan government to
abide by the plan timetable.
Still doubting the
likelihood of a
peaceful resolution of the
Katangan secession, he...
-
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)...
- 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...
-
erosion of
legitimacy suffered by the
Mobutist state. In 1977 and 1978,
Katangan rebels based in
Angola launched two invasions,
Shaba I and
Shaba II, into...
-
colonial empire. Tito saw the
murder of
Patrice Lumumba by Belgian-backed
Katangan separatists in 1961 as the "greatest
crime in
contemporary history". Yugoslavia's...
- The
Katangese franc (French:
franc katangais), was the
currency of the
unrecognized State of
Katanga between 1960 and 1963
during its
brief period of independence...
