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...massacres; in fact, there are few rebel prisoners of any kind, because the government soldiers kill their captives with as much dispatch as the Simbas. And the notion of winning over the Lumumbists by means of elections is a delusion. There may be some moderates among the rebels, but Lumum-bism and the whole rebel movement have never been stronger or more militant. Necessary though the Stanleyville intervention was, it did have the unfortunate effect of coalescing Arab and African radical support behind the rebellion. With the northern and eastern borders of the Congo wide open to infiltration, Tshombe...
...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 innocent tribesmen and a missionary medical station...
...husben George White from Hope Well, Va. got burnt up, fell in lumum pot* at Petersburg, Va., left two children. No. 6 husben, Willie Brown, native of Richmond, Va. he died from launching ships at Carolina Ship yard, wilmington, N. C. No. 7 husben, Charlie Moten from Horrie County, S. C. died from cramp, 1 child left...
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