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...Tshombe who threatened a "bloodbath" if the 2,500 U.N. troops stationed in his area tried to disarm his 5,000-man army. Premier Joseph Ileo in Leopoldville and Rebel Chief Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville roared their own defiance. To face these threats, the U.N. needed more manpower; the Congo combat force was already down to 17,500, would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total of 20,000 men. On the day after the big debate, Dag Hammarskjold began recruiting...
...Nasser defiantly announced that the U.A.R. would continue to give arms and aid to Gizenga as the "legitimate government."* And in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet government was "prepared, together with other states friendly toward the Republic of the Congo," to supply Gizenga with aid, assistance and help to restore "order, unity, law and integrity" to the Congo. As a gimmick to appeal to African sentiment, Khrushchev proposed that the U.N. force should be replaced by an all-African commission, comprising nations with troops currently in the Congo, that would...
...northern Congo, weeds and wild bush snaked across roads traveled only by stealthy bands of marauding army deserters. In Leopoldville, garbage piled high and the prevailing scent came from the sewers. Jealous rivals have sliced the Congo into six distinct nominally independent "nations," and in each juju magic and ritual murder are becoming the savage law of the countryside, just as they had been when Henry Morton Stanley arrived...
...paralyzed, even speechless. There were 300 Ghanaian troops, 55 Austrian hospital specialists and a company of Pakistani transport men in Bakwanga the day Kalonji brought his victims to town for their public beating; apparently they stood by helplessly, did not even report the incident to Leopoldville headquarters of U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal until four days later. Eleven hundred U.N. Ethiopian soldiers were in the area when Gizenga executed his 15 enemies; either they knew nothing of the killings or did nothing to stop them...
Dayal's U.N. headquarters in fact seemed more concerned with the "menace" of Belgians than with the barbaric slaughter. After the first wave of violence last July, the Congo's Belgian population dropped from 80,000 to 20,000, but slowly rose back to its present 40,000 as farmers, shopkeepers, technicians and barbers returned to their Congolese homes. Most are perfectly harmless-and highly useful - private citizens owning private property and pursuing private lives. Under any rule of international law, there is no more reason for them to be forced to "get out" because the Congolese have...