Word: secessionist
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Using Kivu as their staging area, 600 of Gizenga's men invaded the Katanga stronghold of Secessionist Moise Tshombe. Installing two Lumumba supporters (one of them Lumumba's cousin) as heads of a new territory to be known as "Lualaba," the invaders occupied village after village in Katanga's northern wilds, where the local Baluba tribesmen were happy to welcome any enemies of the Tshombe regime. At Manono, center of Katanga's tin mining, the interlopers stopped, dug in, and announced establishment of Lualaba's new capital...
...surely would forbid the use of trucks or planes to haul them east for an all-out invasion. No one, however, could complain when he airlifted 100 troops to Kasai as an escort for President Joseph Kasavubu on his official visit to Bakwanga, capital of the secessionist Mining State in Kasai. But soon after the heavily armed "escort" got to Kasai, the transports took off again, turned up at an airport in Ruanda-Urundi, the Belgian-run trust territory on the Congo's eastern edge. There the Belgians, who clearly were in on the game, smilingly agreed...
Anger in Katanga. Early in the week Mobutu flew desperately across the Congo to seek support from Secessionist Moise Tshombe, boss of Katanga province. But Tshombe rebuffed him; he had troubles of his own in what he now calls "Republic of Katanga.'' In the northern Katanga bush, hostile Baluba tribesmen were burning villages and killing dozens of Tshombe loyalists. Until the U.N. neutralized much of Tshombe's army by cutting off fuel supplies and refusing it transport, Katanga troops killed scores in punitive raids on Baluba villages. Last week the U.N. moved hundreds of troops into isolated...
...determined to pull Katanga back into the Congo Republic-which can never prosper without Katanga's mineral riches. As part of the pressure on Katanga, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold again last week aimed blunt words at the Belgians, demanding that they cease financial and political support for Secessionist Tshombe...
...their Belgian officers," bound the hands of 68 Baluba tribesmen and murdered them all with Sten guns. The U.N. called it "the most brutal massacre yet to have taken place in the Congo," and warned that U.N. forces would intervene the next time. Tshombe woodenly maintained that his secessionist army was only engaged in "hard repression of a rebellion," but a Katanga spokesman finally admitted, "It was a mistake -they didn't intend to kill them...