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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...
Conditions are even worse in nearby Kivu province, where Lumumba's old Communist-lining Information Minister Anicet Kashamura took over as boss two months ago. On hearing of Lumumba's death, Gizenga sent soldiers to Kivu, where they arrested and beat up Kashamura. But pro-Kashamura troops then beat up the captors and released their man, leaving the situation confused and Lumumba's heirs bitterly split...
...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 and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
...Roundup. But when Mobutu's troops crossed the bridge under a white flag and advanced on the town, Kashamura's pro-Lumumba soldiers greeted them with a cascade of chattering machine guns and banging rifles. When it was all over four hours later, no one much had been hurt, but Mobutu's invaders were in jail. So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer...