Hammarskjold was on his way to Ndola to meet | Tshombe to negotiate an end to the
Katangese secession.
(57.) CRAWFORD, supra note 3, at 127;
Katangese Peoples' Cong.
He thinks that the pilot was a character known as 'The Lone Ranger' and must have been communicating with the CIA or with some other
Katangese, Rhodesian or British base, which was cooperating with the CIA.
The Force Publique--now known as the Congolese National Army--was in disarray and was repeatedly defeated by the
Katangese. Lumumba called on the UN to provide troops to subdue the rebellious province.
Soon after,
Katangese launched another attack from Angola and once again the Cubans were blamed.
Hammarskjold was on his way to meet the
Katangese leader, Moise Tshombe, to negotiate an end to the secession in 1961.
In 1961, in the mining town of Jadotville, 150 soldiers of the Athlone town-based A company 35th Infantry Battalion came under attack from 4,000 Belgian-led
Katangese forces.
The 150 Irish troops later came under attack from 4000 Belgian led
Katangese forces.
He also used ethnic tension between the Kasai and
Katangese to diminish support for his main political opponent, Etienne Tshisekedi, who was an ethnic Kasai.
(4) Soon after, Angola encouraged the so-called Katanga Tigers, a group of aging
Katangese soldiers and their sons who had been living in exile in Angola since the failed Katanga secession attempt in 1962, to join the fight against Mobutu.