Word: kivu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of the five-month rebellion has been frightful: more than 1,000 killed on both sides, at least 27 of them white civilians; the halt of practically all economic activity in rich Kivu province; and heavy damage to Bukavu, the mercenaries' stronghold. Last week the Organization of African Unity demanded that the mercenaries' home countries pay reparations to the Congo as the price of their release...
...private mercenary brigade that has managed to bully the Congo government for three months agreed last week to pack up and leave the country. Belgian Planter Jean Schramme and his force of 150 white "meres" and 1,000 black Katangese have controlled the town of Bukavu in Kivu province and the territory around it, ever since they hurled back battalions of Congolese troops sent to put down their revolt. They have managed to keep the Congo government on edge with their threats, raised doubt about the effectiveness of law in the bush, and sullied the prestige of President Joseph Mobutu...
...quell a mutiny led by some 150 whites, who were hired a few years ago by ex-Premier Moise Tshombe but have more recently been on Mobutu's payroll. That mercenary force had by last week battled its way out of a forest encampment near Obokote in Kivu Province and was pushing toward Bukavu near the Rwanda border, where a small government garrison was waiting...
...have been replaced by newcomers from Europe. British railway workers, fired by the Kenya government at the demand of its labor unions, were back on their jobs a year later at much higher pay; too many trains had been going off the tracks. In the Congo's fertile Kivu region, deserted Belgian farmlands have been snapped up by eager Italians who are now making money hand over fist. Attracted by high salaries and a booming, open economy, the French population of the Ivory Coast has doubled in the past five years...
Bukavu Battle. Tshombe's action all but obscured the Congolese army's finest hour since he came to power. On the hilly shore of Lake Kivu, a truck-borne column of rebels, well armed and reportedly loaded with dope, crashed through the defenses of the European resort city of Bukavu, the government's last major toehold in the eastern Congo. Promptly the rebels set up headquarters in the Hotel Royal Residence, took over the post office, and began rampaging through the center of town. Always before in such circumstances, the government defenders had fled in panic...