-
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...
-
pressure on the
Katangan government to
abide by the plan timetable.
Still doubting the
likelihood of a
peaceful resolution of the
Katangan secession, he...
- the help of
Belgian partisans,
tortured and
executed by the
separatist Katangan authorities of Moïse Tshombe. He was seen as a
martyr for the pan-African...
-
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...
- 6 (Nov/Dec 2010),
Volume 18. Brownell,
Josiah "Diplomatic Lepers: The
Katangan and
Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the
United States and the
Politics of...
-
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)...
- Kasa-Vubu and
Lumumba in a coup by proxy.[citation needed] On 17
January 1961,
Katangan forces,
supported by the
Belgian government,
which desired to
retain mining...
-
Soviet troops into the
country during the
Congo Crisis), and
praised the
Katangan men for
wanting to "defend themselves,
their wives,
their children and...
-
Western intelligence agencies to
imprison Lumumba and hand him over to
Katangan authorities who
executed him by
firing squad. In
British Guiana, the leftist...
- 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...
