Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis ( often referred to as Congo turmoil ) was both a violent national crisis within the Democratic Republic of Congo and an international crisis against the backdrop of the Cold War, which lasted approximately from 1960 to 1965. During the crisis, which occurred immediately after gaining independence in 1960, it came to the mutiny of the Force Publique against its Belgian officers, which led to the mass exodus, which are still in the country Belgians and Belgian troops to intervene. This was rejected by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba as a violation of Congolese sovereignty, which is why this asked the United Nations for help. The United nations sent at blue-helmet soldiers who replaced the Belgian troops gradually throughout the country. Nevertheless, we succeeded Moïse Tshombe under the protection of the Belgian troops to declare the independence of Katanga province. This secession movement joined a little later South Kasai on.

In September 1960, arrived in the capital Leopoldville to constitutional crisis, during which President Kasavubu and Lumumba declared premiere each other for discontinued. Finally, a military coup Colonel Mobutu, who deposed Lumumba and Kasavubu enabled the appointment of a prime minister acceptable to him. Later, Lumumba was deported to Katanga and murdered in January 1961. The followers of Lumumba formed a rival government in Stanleyville with Antoine Gizenga at the top, which controlled the eastern part of the country.

After these events, the UN blue helmets finished in the two campaigns Katanga secession in 1963, Tshombe and taking Orientale province by government forces unit of the Congolese States has been restored. Began in 1964 in the east of the worn by supporters of Lumumba Simba rebellion, which was however quickly put down by Congolese and foreign troops. The elections and the second coup by Mobutu in 1965 to mark the end of the Congo crisis, however until the late 1960s, local pockets of resistance were crushed by government troops.

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