2007-11-07 01:57:04 · 8 answers · asked by tigs hugs 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Congo
2007-11-07 02:00:11 · answer #1 · answered by Splishy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't a country, it was a province of the Congo.
According to revelations from the writer and historian, Ludo De Witte, archives from the Belgian Foreign Ministry show that senior politicians in Brussels had master minded the breakaway of the state of Katanga.
Congo's richest province, Katanga, led by Patrice Lumumba's long time enemy Moise Tschombe, announced it was seceding. Belgian troops helped secure the breakaway state. The vast profits made from Katanga's mineral riches - copper, diamonds, gold and uranium - had always flowed back to Belgium. Whoever controlled Katanga had domain over most of Congo's wealth.
When Belgian Congo was released into independence in 1960, the mineral-rich (copper) southeastern province of KATANGA seceded, declaring it's independence. The province of SOUTH KASAI also seceded. The government in Kinshasa did not recognize Katangan independence, and fighting broke out. No foreign government recognized Katangan independence, in accordasnce to the OAU's principle of the inviolability of African state borders.
UN secretary general DAG HAMMARSKJOELD died in an accident while trying to mediate. UN peacekeepers were dispatched. In 1962, after extended negotiation, Katangan premier MOISE TSHOMBE gave in, and in January 1963 Katanga was reintegrated into the Republic of Congo.
Under President Mobutu Sese Seko, Katanga was renamed SHABA in 1971; when Mobutu was toppled in 1997, the old name Katanga was reintroduced.
2007-11-07 03:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by Chariotmender 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katanga
The UN conquered Katanga and forced it's inclusion into the Congo (Zaire)
Tschombe eventually became Prime Minister of Congo, but ended up kidnapped and exiled.
2007-11-07 02:48:14 · answer #3 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katanga, is the country the UN took control of in 1963 and sent Tshombe into exile until he was sentenced to death!
2007-11-07 02:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by Wild Bill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katanga, which is a province of the Congo. Here's a link to this story at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moise_Tschombe
2007-11-07 02:02:19 · answer #5 · answered by Annie D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katanga
2007-11-07 02:05:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
congo
2007-11-07 03:08:08 · answer #7 · answered by cherry 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
congo
2007-11-07 02:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋