Word: lumumbaist
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...from jail, hauled them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been taken from their Stanleyville cells and slaughtered in a dawn execution early last week...
...attack on the U.N. came at a time when many in the West were having misgivings of their own about Congo policy and Hammarskjold's operations. The U.N. deputy in the Congo, Rajeshwar Dayal, seemed to be all too willing to close his eyes to outrages by Lumumbaist bullyboys, while taking every opportunity to denounce anti-Lumumba regimes. The U.N. force itself was dangerously close to disintegration, with Morocco and Guinea withdrawing their troops, and professional meddlers such as Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah trying to take a hand in the Congo's internal affairs. Most...
Opening the Jails. As a first step, Hammarskjold proposed to disarm all the Congolese troops. This would mean disarming not only Mobutu's central Congo army, but also the army of Katanga's Moise Tshombe and the Lumumbaist rebels in Eastern and Kivu provinces; perhaps overoptimistically, Hammarskjold hoped they could be induced to stack arms and retire to training camps. Next, the scattered legislators of the Congo's Parliament would be brought together to form a new government under U.N. supervision. The U.N. would ask all factions to free all political prisoners, a step which admittedly would...
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