Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the rebels had come on foot, many rode home aboard an estimated 350 vehicles stolen from Kolwezi residents. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited northern Zambia last week, reported that the improbable parade looked like "the largest and best organized stolen-car ring in history: dozens of sparkling Peugeots and Fiats, sedans and pickups, careening along amid clouds of dust, blue-and-gold Zaïre license plates glinting in the sun. One overloaded car carried a man clinging to its hood. Occasionally a stolen truck passed by jammed with rebels, not in uniform but arrayed...
Virtually all of the city's 2,250 white residents had been airlifted to Belgium, where many told anguished stories of rebel terror and massacre. Thousands of Kolwezi's 100,000 blacks fled elsewhere, fearing reprisals that were only too soon in coming. The city was without food, without water, without electricity; streets were littered with unburied bodies rotting in the hot African...
...Would you like to give us this?" asked a rebel...
...said the rebel. "The revolution doesn't take from people. It only accepts what they give it. Now, do you want to give us your things...
...last week that 200 Europeans had been killed, but independent groups like the Red Cross have been able to verify fewer than 100 European deaths among the more than 2000 Europeans in Kolwezi. And at least 20 Europeans may have been executed by Zairean army troops, not by the rebels. Ottoway reports that the victims, both African and European, "died in a mostly haphazard manner," singly and in small groups, with "no overall design for the killing or even the saving of lives, either by rebels or Zairean soldiers." He writes that many of the deaths may have resulted from...