Word: inder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobutu protested he had not authorized violence, suggested that the political opposition was behind much of it. His intention, said Mobutu, was to cooperate fully with the U.N. "Then get the army off the streets," snapped India's General Inder Jit Rikhye, Dayal's military adviser. Meekly, Mobutu agreed to withdraw most of his troops to army headquarters outside the city, where the U.N. planned an intensive training program to inject some discipline into its ranks. But the U.N. let him keep his soldiers around Patrice Lumumba's house and at the radio station, and, for some...
...leave Ndjili, decided that they, too, were Belgians. They knocked the Canadians to the ground to search them, pounded a Canadian captain into unconsciousness with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they drifted away. Reinforced U.N. troops began putting up barbed wire barricades around the field with orders to shoot if any further armed Congolese...