Word: luluabourg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made it: a Belgian crew member overheard Lumumba say he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium, and the Belgian pilot turned the plane toward Leopoldville, where Ndjili Airport was in the hands of Belgian paratroops...
Militarily, the Belgians did not do so well. They restored order in the white section of Leopoldville, in Luluabourg chased Congolese mutineers away from a hotel where they had besieged 75 whites for two days. But they failed embarrassingly in an attack on the Congolese garrison of the river port of Matadi...
...Libre Belgique cried: "It would be madness to worry now about legal scruples." More details came in: two Europeans had been killed at Kongolo; hundreds were isolated and under attack at the river ports of Boma and Matadi; 1,200 Belgians were trapped in an office building in Luluabourg and appealing desperately for helicopters, guns and paratroopers. Abruptly, Premier Eyskens' government reversed itself. Some hundred Belgian paratroopers were bundled aboard planes for Léopoldville; Sabena, the Belgian airline, canceled all commercial flights to rush its planes to Africa to evacuate Belgian refugees...
...running civil war of spears and poison arrows between the Balubas and the Luluas, more than 60 were killed. Once the Balubas had been serfs of the ruling Luluas. But now, being more numerous, they stood to emerge as the leaders of the provisional government in Luluabourg. Enraged, King Kalamba of the proud Luluas ordered the Balubas to pack up and leave the region. When they refused, the Luluas attacked, screaming, "Benyi baye kuabo" (Strangers go home...
...King Lukengu, who has more than 300 wives, at first was suspected of promoting the revival of tschipapa, but when he faithfully turned in several tribal poison mixers to the white authorities, he was exonerated of blame-just in time to be received by Baudouin during his stop at Luluabourg...