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Night flight to death: the violent end of Dag Hammarskjöld
During the Cold War, the power blocks of the East and West vied to control the vast mineral resources of the former Belgian colony, The Congo. The Swedish Secretary General of the United Nations sent in UN troops as a mediating, independent force. B...
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Death colonial style: the execution of Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, was a hero to his fellow Africans but a communist threat to the West. Within months of becoming Prime Minister in 1960, Lumumba was ousted in a military coup and killed shortl...