Word: gizenga
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...them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been taken from their Stanleyville cells and slaughtered in a dawn execution early last week...
Where's Anicet? In Gizenga's Eastern province, and in neighboring Kivu, the leaders are beginning to squabble among themselves for the throne vacated so abruptly by Lumumba. Major victim was Anicet Kashamura, Lumumba's 32-year-old former Minister of Information who was named seven weeks ago by Gizenga to plant Lumumba's banner in Bukavu amidst the farm-rich Kivu highlands that border the Mountains of the Moon...
Kashamura lost control of his own rampaging troops a fortnight ago. So Gizenga sent out Hatchetman Christopher Gbenye from Stanleyville to fetch Kashamura home. But Kashamura's cops met Gbenye at the city limits, sent him fleeing to the local U.N. troops for sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear Gizenga assassins under his bed-and also asked U.N. protection. When he finally ventured out of hiding, he was still nervous. Startled by a commotion in the hall outside his fourth-floor office in Bukavu's Riviera Hotel, he leaped for the window; friends had to restrain him from...
...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...
Taking Sides? While Dayal's experts fussed noisily about Belgians, they turned a blind eye to a bigger threat to the peace: the gradual southward nibbling of the military patrols of Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga. Repeatedly in recent weeks visitors warned U.N. headquarters that Gizenga troops had been seen moving toward Luluabourg, capital of Kasai, a strategic junction commanding the only direct route between Kasavubu's Leopoldville and Tshombe's Katanga. "We have no such reports," sniffed a U.N. official...