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	The Militant - 11/25/96 -- 'The Colonialist Hand Is Visible In The Congo' Castro, Guevara speak out against 1960s UN intervention in central
		After Lumumba won the presidency in a general election, Belgium's rulers backed an antigovernment rebellion by Tshombe's forces in Katanga province.
		To counter the Belgian-backed uprising, Lumumba invited the United Nations to send "peacekeepers." But instead of fighting the rebellion, UN troops disarmed Lumumba's forces, thus aiding Belgian troops.
		The government of Belgium was Congo's colonial master until June 30, 1960, when the country won independence.
	www.themilitant.com /1996/6042/6042_25.html

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Moise Tshombe's Curious Position In the Line-Up of African Leaders
		During the violent, disorderly days of the Congo rebellion at the end of 1960, when Tshombe was President of the secessionist Katanga province, Lumumba was captured by the forces of the central government, headed by President Joseph Kasavubu.
		Tshombe's fondness for the Belgians seemed stronger than ever when, during Katanga's secession, he insisted that Belgian troops remain in Katanga in preference to the central government's troops and to the United Nations soldiers sent to maintain order in the Congo.
		At the same time, Tshombe announced that his province of Katanga had seceded from the Congo.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=246982 (1804 words)

	congopage2
		Patrice Lumumba was captured and murdered by Katangan secessionists in January of 1961.
		Tshombe had used mercenaries in his separation of Katanga and quite aware of their ability and use.
		Despite the CIA assistance to the central government, the SIMBA rebellion rapidly spread further and further.
	mercenarycongo.com /congopage2.htm (779 words)

	CONGOKIN FORUM: January 31, 2005 Congo traditional ruler Mwaat Yaav Kawel II, rebel against Mobutu, dies
		He backed his elder brother in his two-year rebellion against Kinshasa following the independence of Congo from Belgium in 1960, sat in the Katangan parliament and helped to run the province's mining industry.
		Mwaat Yaav Kawel II, who was born Thomas Tshombe, died from heart complications at Musumba, in Katanga, southeastern DRC, a relative told AFP.
		KINSHASA (AFP) - The ruler of the Lunda people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (news - web sites) and brother of Moise Tshombe, Mwaat Yaav Kawel II, who led the abortive Katanga independence bid in the 1960s, has died at the age of 72, his family said.
	www.congokin.com /news/categories/society/story2308.shtml (319 words)

	Democratic Republic Of The Congo [Definition]
		The government of former president Mobutu Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 - January 18, 2001) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko until his assassination in January 2001.
		The government of Mobutu Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila in May This article is about the month of May. For other uses, see May (disambiguation).
		Lumumba escaped to join his supporters in Stanleyville but was recaptured and then flown (January, 1961), on orders from the Belgian Minister for African affairs, to his sworn enemies in Katanga.
	www.wikimirror.com /Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (319 words)

	Kabila, Laurent Desire -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		president of Zaire (now Congo [Kinshasa]), who seized power in a 1965 coup and ruled (dictatorially until 1991) for some 32 years before being ousted by a rebellion in 1997.
		27, 1939, Jadotville, Katanga province, Belgian Congo—confirmed dead on Jan. 18, 2001, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC; formerly Zaire]), was president of the DRC from 1997 until his death.
		leader of a rebellion that overthrew President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire in May 1997.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9114547 (319 words)

	29 Jun History: This Date
		In 1959 he became president of Conakat (Confédération des Associations Tribales du Katanga), a political party that was supported by Tshombe's tribal group, the powerful Lunda, and by the Belgian mining monopoly Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controlled the province's rich copper mines.
		Sir Roger David Casement, the Irish-born diplomat who in 1911 was knighted by King George V, is convicted of treason for his role in Ireland's Easter Rebellion, and sentenced to death.
		Isabel de Perón was imprisoned for five years on a charge of abuse of property, and upon her release in 1981 settled in Madrid
	www.geocities.com /hills4526/history/h4jun/h4jun29.html (8098 words)

	Dihur Godefroid Tchamlesso, Kabila: The Last of Lumumba's Forge
		Kabila toured large territories of Katanga by car, train, and plane, and sometimes on foot, preaching and mobilizing young followers of Lumumba and Jason Sendwe, leader of the Balubakat party (Baluba from Katanga), for the armed struggle.
		Kabila started reorganizing his movement immediately after the rebellion was defeated in Kibamba, some 120 kilometers from Uvira.
		Kabila was studying in the provincial capital and I was in Kalemie, an important city by the Tanganyika Lake.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/35/106.html (8098 words)

	History
		Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, again seized control of the country and declared himself president for 5 years.
		In 1965 there was a second coup d'etat and Mobutu was again helped to power, this time following a power struggle between President Kasavubu and his Prime Minister Moise Tshombe (Confédération des Associations du Katanga, Conakat and former president of 1960 to 1963 breakaway republic Katanga).]
		Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	congobandit.tripod.com /id2.html (1540 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		Laurent Kabila's attempt to expel the Rwandan armed forces was frustrated by the outbreak in August 1998 of a rebellion, led by the RCD.
		President Joseph Kabila continued his father's practice of filling a disproportionate number of government positions with persons from his home province of Katanga and specifically from his Muluba ethnic group.
		President Joseph Kabila continued his father's practice of filling a disproportionate number of government positions with persons from his home province of Katanga, and specifically from his Muluba ethnic group.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8322.htm (18364 words)

	BBC NEWS World Africa Country profiles Country profile: Democratic Republic of Congo
		After independence in 1960, the country immediately faced an army mutiny and an attempt at secession by its mineral-rich province of Katanga.
		A rift between Kabila and his former allies sparked a new rebellion, backed by Rwanda and Uganda.
		A vast country with immense economic resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been at the centre of what could be termed Africa's world war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076399.stm (18364 words)

	BBC NEWS World Africa Country profiles Country profile: Democratic Republic of Congo
		A rift between Kabila and his former allies sparked a new rebellion, backed by Rwanda and Uganda.
		After independence in 1960, the country immediately faced an army mutiny and an attempt at secession by its mineral-rich province of Katanga.
		DR Congo's largest former rebel groups are the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) and the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC).
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1076399.stm (976 words)

	Democratic republic of the Congo
		There were just four years of chaotic democracy (during which Lumumba was assassinated) before a military coup took place and General Mobutu Sese Seko came to power promising to restore order and using the army to crush a secessionist rebellion in the Katanga region of the country.
		The Congo region of central Africa was one of the last regions of the world to be “discovered” and mapped by Europeans during a famous expedition undertaken by Henry Morton Stanley with the economic support of the Belgian Crown.
		A cycle of atrocity introduced by King Leopold II of Belgium in the late nineteenth century has flared up increasingly in recent years and resulted in what some commentators are calling “Africa’s Great War” with up to twelve armies representing nation states and rebel groups using the country as their battleground.
	papa.essortment.com /democraticrepub_raob.htm (600 words)

	COUNTRY ASSESSMENT
		Public political demonstrations in defiance of the ban were generally repressed Some progress with economic stabilisation was made, but corruption levels are said to be as high as during the Mobutu years, and the recent rebellion and foreign intervention has had very serious adverse consequences for the economy.
		Political and military disagreements ensued and the eastern provinces of Katanga and South Kasai resolved to secede.
		The political leader of the eastern separatists, Moise Tshombe, became prime minister pending legislative elections, and the country was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	www.asylumlaw.org /docs/congodemocraticrepublic/ind99b_congodr_ca.htm (11713 words)

	HAITI PROGRES
		The rebellion, which not coincidentally flared in the oil and mineral rich Katanga province, was led by Moise Tshombe, a wealthy plantation owner who was backed by 10,000 Belgian troops.
		Mobuto then arrested Lumumba and turned him over to Tshombe, who had him murdered.
		Lumumba unwisely invited in United Nations "peace-keepers" to fend off the attack.
	www.haitiprogres.com /2004/sm040218/eng02-18.html (1625 words)

	'The Colonialist Hand Is Visible In The Congo'
		After Lumumba won the presidency in a general election, Belgium's rulers backed an antigovernment rebellion by Tshombe's forces in Katanga province.
		Tshombe's mercenaries and their imperialist backers eventually crushed the anti-imperialist rebels.
		Facing this critical situation, Mobutu brought back Tshombe, who was in exile for a brief period of time, and named him prime minister.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/35/283.html (1120 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR)
		Laurent Kabila is a Luba from Katanga, and long-time opponent of Mobutu Sese Seko.
		As a result of this negative, differential treatment, the Congolese Tutsis began to rebel against their oppressors in the east, and they became the foundation for the rebellion that would be led by Laurent Kabila and eventually overthrow Mobutu.
		Under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, the Banyarwanda were not considered citizens of Congo despite many of them having lived in Kivu since long before Congoan independence, and even colonization.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/drctuts.htm (1811 words)

	ECLIPSE OVER LAKE TANGANYIKA, Albert Russo, Domhan Books
		The metaphorical "eclipse" of the title is the change from an immaculate majestic blackness "carved in ebony" to the blackness of an evil fed and encouraged by the white colonization of Africa, whose aftermath extends from the Katanga rebellion in the sixties (the time of the novel) to the Rwandan genocide of the nineties.
		Albert Russo raises then the ultimate question of the effect of colonialism, a political system in which humaneness (love, tolerance and delight in natural beauty) is eventually dissolved into the disheartening racial equality of greed, contempt and murder.
		Reading one of Albert Russo's renderings of his works from one of his native languages into the other is always a fascinating experience.
	www.domhanbooks.com /eclipse.htm (573 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo, Country Information
		What initially appeared to be a regional movement seeking to protect the Tutsi population in South Kivu soon gathered momentum and emerged as a national rebellion with the support of Rwanda seeking to overthrow the Mobutu regime.
		At the same time, the provinces of Katanga and South Kasai resolved to secede from the rest of the country.
		The caretaker government of Kengo wa Dondo was left to confront a rapid escalation of violence in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu.
	www.ecoi.net /pub/panja1_drc0010.htm (573 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR)
		A rebellion, sparked by ethnic violence against Banyarwandans (Congolese Hutus and Tutsi) in the east and later led by Laurent Kabila, began in Zaire in the fall of 1996.
		The violence targeting the Luba-Kasai in Katanga receded during 1995-1996 largely because hundreds of thousands of Luba fled the province.
		Luba of Kasai Province-Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/drcluba.htm (573 words)

	ECLIPSE OVER LAKE TANGANYIKA, Albert Russo, Domhan Books
		The metaphorical "eclipse" of the title is the change from an immaculate majestic blackness "carved in ebony" to the blackness of an evil fed and encouraged by the white colonization of Africa, whose aftermath extends from the Katanga rebellion in the sixties (the time of the novel) to the Rwandan genocide of the nineties.
		Albert Russo raises then the ultimate question of the effect of colonialism, a political system in which humaneness (love, tolerance and delight in natural beauty) is eventually dissolved into the disheartening racial equality of greed, contempt and murder.
		Reading one of Albert Russo's renderings of his works from one of his native languages into the other is always a fascinating experience.
	www.domhanbooks.com /eclipse.htm (573 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		With the help of UN forces, Adoula suppressed the rebellion, but he was replaced by Tshombe in July 1964.
		As prime minister he faced successive crises, including the attempted succession of Katanga Province under Moise Tshombe (1919-1969).
		Adoula later served as ambassador to Belgium and to to the U.S. and as foreign minister before his retirement in 1970.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6390663 (98 words)

	Articles - Patrice Lumumba
		Mobutu said Lumumba would be tried for inciting the army to rebellion and other crimes.
		His rule was marked by the political disruption when the province of Katanga declared independence under Moise Tshombe in June 1960 with Belgian support.
		Lumumba was arrested on December 1, 1960 by troops of Mobutu.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Patrice_Lumumba (98 words)

	Africa'sHope.com - History: Independence
		Soon after, Tshombe agreed to end Katanga's secession, and he was appointed prime minister by President Kasavubu in an effort to prevent another rebellion.
		Kasavubu led an army coup later that same year, dismissed Lumumba from his position, and handed him over to the Katangan forces.
		With President Joseph Kasavubu and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba at odds, Belgian troops returned - this time under the auspices of the United Nations - to quell the war.
	www.africashope.com /history_Independence.htm (169 words)

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