Word: simba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoare and his mercenary column as they pushed toward the village of Bafwasende. The message: 'Flee, the white giants are coming." But Hoare and his men cut through the bush to hit Bafwasende from the rear, gunned down some of the rebels before they could escape " including a Simba cap tain carrying written orders to exterminate all white hostages held there...
...hostages -eleven Italian nuns and three British missionary women -still alive. But eight Dutch priests and six Britons had been shot. Among the dead was an Eng lish schoolgirl, Heather Arton, 16. who had joined her missionary parents last August during her holiday. She caught the fancy of a Simba captain, who for weeks brutalized her before an audience of his feathered fellow tribesmen. In the end, when the Simbas marched off her parents with the others, the captain offered to spare her. But she tore loose and joined the death march...
Political Solution. Hoare's handful of "giants" are the only hope for the other whites still held by the rebels, but last week it was a pallid hope at best. Mercenary-led Congolese troops remained pinned down at the Paulis airport by 4,000 Simbas armed with automatic weapons; a second rescue column was forced to retreat to its base at Bunia. As Russian and Red Chinese weapons continued to move in through Uganda and the Sudan, military experts in Leopoldville estimated that Simba firepower had already surpassed that of the Congolese and mercenary forces. Against that background...
Half-Measures. The proposals disclosed little sense of realism. A broadened, "elephant" Cabinet would more than likely bog down in the same sort of bickering and flatulent debate that plagued Adoula's ill-fated government. There are few rebel prisoners untainted by the Simba 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...
Some nuns were merely beaten up with bottles or gun butts, and one was slugged with a telephone, which the Simbas apparently considered bad dawa (magic). Three were raped. One nun, Sister Maria Therese, 36, resisted, and a Simba shattered both her kneecaps with a precisely aimed rifle shot. "It was night," recalled a surviving nun. "She was losing much blood, and the Simbas wouldn't let us near her. She died early in the morning after lying alone on the street for many hours." The Simbas then locked their prisoners back in the hotel, where most were ultimately...