Word: ganao
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Despite the fact that many of the complaining nations, such as Tanzania and Kenya, had in the past relied on outside troops to help them keep order, or had called them in to quell uprisings, the rescue operation was roundly condemned by Foreign Minister Charles-Daniel Ganao of the Brazzaville Congo as "the latest aggression committed by the Americans, the Belgians and the British against the black population...
...Ganao charged that the operation's only purpose had been "to exterminate the black inhabitants," but Guinean Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui thought it had been carried out "to keep Africa within the orbit of the imperialist powers," and Kenya's Foreign Minister Joseph Murumbi called it a "sordid collusion, a calculated attempt to impose American-Belgian domination in the Congo." For Tanzanian Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, it "will go down in history as the meanest, most unwarranted and provocative interference by the Western world in the affairs of the African continent...
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