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...official in the Communist-backed National Liberation Committee, which runs the Congo's endemic provincial rebellions. Recognizing the dangers of giving more portfolios to potential enemies, Tshombe took the ministries of Foreign Trade, Planning, Information and Foreign Affairs for himself, named his old Katanga henchman Godefroid Munongo to head the Interior and Civil Service ministries...
Tshombe was speaking not only for himself. A powerful faction inside his Cabinet, led by tough Godefroid Munongo, Katanga's Minister of the Interior, refused any compromise whatever with the central Congolese regime. On the other side were Katanga's Baluba tribesmen-many of them displaced by the war and living precariously in U.N. refugee camps-whose leaders hate Tshombe and demand not secession but union with the Congo; the Baluba represent half of all Katanga's people...
This was war, and although Katanga's President Moise Tshombe was away in Paris, Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo proclaimed: "We are all here, resolved to fight and to die if necessary. The United Nations may take our cities. There will remain our villages and the bush. All the tribal chiefs are alerted. We are savages; we are Negroes. So be it. We shall fight like savages with our arrows...
Holes in the Fuselage. As Munongo spoke, the radioteletype to New York was chattering in U.N. headquarters 1,000 miles away at Leopoldville, seat of the Congo's central government. On the line was U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant in Manhattan, with his approval for any action the U.N. authorities on the scene deemed necessary, on the ground...
Although noting that the details of the story should be treated with caution, the U.N. commission concluded that the prisoners were murdered on Jan. 17, in all probability "in the presence of Tshombe and Munongo." Moreover, said the report, blame for the crime must be shared by Congolese Central Government President Joseph Kasavubu, who handed Lumumba over to Tshombe in the first place...