Word: tshatshi
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...Mulele was feted over champagne and caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned to Kinshasa when he announced that Mulele was not covered by the amnesty and that he would be tried as a war criminal. A military court of three judges-their names were not revealed-convened at Camp Tshatshi, Kinshasa's paracommando garrison, and after 15 hours of deliberation sentenced Mulele to death before a firing squad. The government's official explanation of the trial: Mulele had planned a Communist revolt against Mobutu with the aid of Cuban-trained rebels...
Over the months, the Katangese and the A.N.C. troops grew to hate each other largely because the Mobutu men lorded it over the Kats and took all the cold beer and prettiest girls. Two months ago, the gendarmes went "on strike," nabbed A.N.C. Colonel Joseph Damien Tshatshi (known in the Congo as "Tshatshi the Terrible"), sent him back to headquarters in his underwear. Angry and alarmed, A.N.C. Commander Louis Bobozo decided that the time had come to disarm the Kats. When he tried to implement his decision two weeks ago, all hell broke loose in Stanleyville (now called Kisangani...
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