Word: disarmed
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They condemned the imminent arrival of 4.700 new Indian troops to join the U.N. force, and seemed prepared to take on the U.N. in armed battle if it persisted in the aim to disarm them...
Dayal's job was getting tougher, not easier. Under the new Security Council resolution, he was instructed to prevent civil war. "by force if necessary." He was also supposed to "reorganize" (i.e., disarm) the Congolese troops. On the civil war front, the U.N. command seemed singularly irresolute in using its new powers. In Luluabourg, even as the Stanleyville invaders were fleeing in confusion, crowds of angry Lulua tribesmen clashed with the local Congolese garrison; the troops proceeded to mow down the mob. killing 44 before the eyes of U.N. Ghanaian patrols, who apparently had orders not to interfere...
...disarming the unruly Congolese soldiers, the U.N. found the tables turned and its own Nigerian, Tunisian and Canadian soldiers being disarmed by the Congolese. As usual in the Congo, the whole thing started with a misunderstanding compounded by native Congolese hysteria. On a peaceful, sunny Sunday at a lake outside Leopoldville, where hundreds of Belgian families and off-duty U.N. employees had gone to picnic and swim, a U.N. truck with armed Tunisian U.N. troops drew up with urgent orders from Dayal's headquarters, instructing all U.N. people to leave the area immediately. On a nearby hillside, scores...
Applying his new authority might be more difficult. From Katanga came ominous rumblings from Moise 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...
...argument drew sharp comment from HRWF members, some of whom wondered "exactly how limited a limited war is." (Federalists usually maintain that no stablization is immediately possible in the arms race, and that an international force to regulate controls must be set up while the individual members gradually disarm...