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Topic: Katangese


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  Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was seized by Katangese soldiers commanded by Belgians and driven to Villa Brouwe.
He was guarded and brutalized still further by both Belgian and Katangese troops while President Tschombe and his cabinet decided what to do with him.
When Lumumba's death was formally announced on Katangese radio, it was accompanied by an implausible cover involving an escape and murder by enraged villagers.
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 1966 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jongejans persona non grata but tells him not to leave the country before group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands
July 23 - Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt in support of the exiled minister Moise Tschombe.
July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1966   (5146 words)

  
 Top20DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo.com - Your Top20 Guide to Democratic Republic of the Congo!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lumumba escaped to join his supporters in Stanleyville but was recaptured and then flown (January, 1961), on orders from the Belgian Minister of African Affairs, to his sworn enemies in Katanga.
On the way he and two of his assistants were harshly tortured by a Belgian-Congolese command and upon arrival were transferred into the posession of the Katangese leadership.
On the same night he arrived, Lumumba was bundled into another convoy that headed into the bush.
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 AFRICA, REFERENCES AND TABLESby Kurt Schuler
The name of the capital, Léopoldville, was changed back to Kinshasa in 1966.
By 1967 the Katanga rebellion ended, although Katangese rebels unsuccessfully tried to invade the region from Angola in 1977 and 1978, when Angola was embroiled in a civil war.
Mobutu and his government were exceedingly corrupt and contributed to keeping the country quite poor.
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 1962 in History
August 5 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa
August 5 U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports
August 6 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
www.brainyhistory.com /years/1962.html   (7794 words)

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