Katangese

UN troops finally entered Katanga, but only after Hammarskjöld guaranteed that the Belgian troops could stay, provided they put on a "Katangese" uniform.

The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange Witte, Ludo De 2001

Mobutu delivered Lumumba to the Katangese, who beat him nearly to death before putting him before a firing squad.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

The UN operation, under the command of an Indian general and with forces from his country as well as Sweden, Ireland, and Ghana, eventually defeated the mercenary-led Katangese army.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

In 1962, the Katangese leader, Moise Tshombe, realizing that military victory was impossible, was persuaded to send his representatives to participate in the parliament in Leopoldville, the central capital.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Faced with the specter of Katangese secession, Lumumba turned to the Soviet Union for military equipment.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

After the war ended, the Congolese president, Joseph Kasavubu, appointed Tshombe premier in an effort to co-opt the Katangese.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

This statement is astonishing, because the civil war in Katanga caused the death of thousands and pushed the UN in the autumn and winter of 1960, when Katangese nationalists were on the verge of toppling the secessionists, to interpose blue helmets between the two sides.

Lumumba and the UN Witte, Ludo De 2002

This "gap" in Urquhart's memory is significant: it shows us a glimpse of the way the UN leadership at the time embraced the Katangese regime and overlooked its brutal repression of the nationalist population.

Lumumba and the UN Witte, Ludo De 2002

De Witte's elaborate fantasy of Hammarskjöld's conspiracy with the Belgians to preserve and consolidate the Katanga secession seem absurd to anyone who worked with Hammarskjöld at the time and experienced his frustration and his frequent rages at, and denunciations of, both the Belgians and their protégé, the Katangese leader, Moïse Tshombe.

The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange Witte, Ludo De 2001

In fact, without UN military support the Katangese secessionists would have been toppled by the nationalists long before they could lay their hands on Lumumba.

The Tragedy of Lumumba: An Exchange Witte, Ludo De 2001