Word: gizenga
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...troops; last week the U.A.R.'s 510-man unit and Guinea's 750 soldiers went home. Massive civil war was in the offing. A battalion of Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province, killing none of the enemy but blasting...
...Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars...
...Lumumba's partisans pushed on. From Stanleyville, Lumumba's old friend and former Vice Premier, Antoine Gizenga, probed westward into Equator province, where his patrols terrorized isolated white communities, roughed up some missionaries, rifled mission collection boxes. Arms and supplies came from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R. troops, who man a U.N. base in Equator. The head of the U.N. Congo force, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, seemed to be at least tacitly helping the Lumumba cause. In northern Katanga, where Gizenga's troops marched into a U.N.-protected "neutral zone" unimpeded by Dayal...
...Stanleyville Antoine Gizenga's men arrested twelve Belgians, talked darkly of "getting even" for Lumumba's transfer to a Katanga prison. When local whites paid $10,000 ransom to free the twelve, Gizenga's agents, seeing a lucrative business, simply arrested 40 more. Belgium promptly massed two battalions along the border in Ruanda-Urundi, warned that if the captives were harmed, the troops would march in to rescue them...
Enraged at this brazen invasion of his region, Tshombe accused the local U.N. troops in North Katanga of carelessness or complicity, for Gizenga's soldiers obviously had traveled through dozens of miles of the "neutral zone," which Tshombe had agreed to leave under the sole protection of the U.N. forces themselves. The U.N. urged Tshombe not to retaliate, but planes of Tshombe's little air force, manned by Belgian pilots, flew off to strafe the enemy with machine guns and hand-hurled bombs. In this first use of air power in the Congo crisis, ground fire from...