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  THE NEWS BLOG
Its leader, Moise Tchombe, was a longtime enemy of Patrice Lumumba.
Tchombe was known close to the Belgian industrial companies which mined the copper, gold and uranium whose wealth had flowed back to Brussels for decades.
The South Kasai region sought independence in similar circumstances to neighboring Katanga during the crisis.
stevegilliard.blogspot.com /2006/03/welcome-to-congo.html   (1903 words)

  
  Moise Tshombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moise Kapenda Tshombe (November 10, 1919 - June 29, 1969) was a Congolese politician.
In 1963, UN forces succeeded in capturing Katanga, forcing Moise Tshombe into exile in Northern Rhodesia, later to Spain.
He returned to the Congo to serve in a new Coalition government, but was dismissed from his position the following year by President Joseph Kasa Vubu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moise_Tchombe   (396 words)

  
 Sobaka :: This Man Died for Your Sins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
No sooner were the mutinies underway that the leader of Katanga Province, Moise Tchombe, began to secede his province from the rest of Congo.
Tchombe's army appeared from nowhere, well-armed and trained and visibly led by Belgian soldiers.
Instead, the Belgian government demanded that Mobutu hand Lumumba over to Katanga's secessionist president, Moise Tchombe, and in a diplomatic cable from Bruxelles, which is startling for its arrogance and makes absolutely clear the truth of who was really staging the tragedy on the dramatic events in the jungle, demanded that Tschombe accept the prisoner.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2002/lumumba.html   (2383 words)

  
 Congo Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its leader, Moise Tchombe, was a longtime enemy of Patrice Lumumba.
Tchombe was known close to the Belgian industrial companies which mined the copper, gold and uranium whose wealth had flowed back to Brussels for decades.
The South Kasai region sought independence in similar circumstances to neighboring Katanga during the crisis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Congo_Crisis   (2073 words)

  
 Moise Tchombe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Tchombe at once declared a break away republic of Katanga, a former province under Belgium's colonial rule.
Tchombe was an articulate and well educated capitalist, and he took control of all the copper, uranium, and chrome in the Congo in his new state.
Tchombe is also linked to the murder of Congolese Prime Minister Patric Lumumba in January of 1961.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Moise-Tchombe.htm   (204 words)

  
 Prespectives
Under this chaotic cover, Moise Tchombe, the leader of the richest province Katanga, attempted to secede with the not so subtle military intervention of Belgium.
By the time the prescribed poison was shipped from CIA labs to its agents in the Congo, Mubutu had already arrested Lumumba and delivered him to his archenemy Moise Tchombe in Katanga.
Among the witnesses were the Belgian police commissioner and three Belgian military officers and, of course, representative of Moise Tchombe.
www.capitalethiopia.com /archive/2004/april/week2/prespectives.htm   (877 words)

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