Word: balikango
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First Victim. Lumumba was also having trouble keeping order inside his own government. He slapped one of the Congo's few educated politicians, Puna Party President Jean Balikango, into jail on charges of making secessionist speeches. But even if by such tactics Lumumba succeeded in making himself a dictator in Leopoldville, he still had a long way to go before he could call himself master of his nation. From the lower Congo came word of mutinies among army units discontented with weeks of no pay or supplies. In the boondocks town of Moerbeke, an armed civilian mob set upon...
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