Word: mutshatsha
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Katangese were to be believed, it all began one dark night outside the little Katanga town of Mutshatsha, near the border of Portuguese Angola. There Lumumba and two of his former aides sat interned in a lonely farmhouse. The Ford belonged to the tough 15-man guard charged with keeping Lumumba in total isolation from his countrymen. Unhappily, 13 of the 15, after a hard week, decided to turn in early, entrusting the watch to two yawning sentinels on the porch. When the time came, the prisoners simply slugged the lonely pair, and in a flash were...