Word: baluba
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...week's end, as relative peace temporarily settled on Léopoldville, news from the boondocks indicated that the U.N. could use all the help it could get. In the bush country of Katanga province, where they ambushed and killed nine Irish U.N. soldiers a fortnight ago, savage Baluba tribesmen last week hacked 113 of their native enemies to death, carving some of the bodies up for cannibal feasts. To its edgy troops the U.N. passed out the not very reassuring instructions that "if [poison] arrows are removed within two seconds, they cause only temporary discomfort...
...Katanga. Early in the week Mobutu flew desperately across the Congo to seek support from Secessionist Moise Tshombe, boss of Katanga province. But Tshombe rebuffed him; he had troubles of his own in what he now calls "Republic of Katanga.'' In the northern Katanga bush, hostile Baluba tribesmen were burning villages and killing dozens of Tshombe loyalists. Until the U.N. neutralized much of Tshombe's army by cutting off fuel supplies and refusing it transport, Katanga troops killed scores in punitive raids on Baluba villages. Last week the U.N. moved hundreds of troops into isolated northern...
...serious trouble. Tshombe's trigger-happy security forces raided the rebellious village of Luena, which supplies coal to feed the furnaces of the potent Union Miniére de Haut-Katanga. The troops reportedly "got out of control of their Belgian officers," bound the hands of 68 Baluba tribesmen and murdered them all with Sten guns. The U.N. called it "the most brutal massacre yet to have taken place in the Congo," and warned that U.N. forces would intervene the next time. Tshombe woodenly maintained that his secessionist army was only engaged in "hard repression of a rebellion...
...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
Fortnight ago Lumumba's troops had captured without a shot the town of Bakwanga, capital of a would-be autonomous republic called "Mining State." But when they sought to move out of Ba kwanga and "pacify" the rest of Mining State, hundreds of fierce Lumumba-hating Baluba tribesmen attacked through the forest, driving the central-government troops back into town. From sources unknown, the anti-Lumumba forces have acquired automatic weapons and mortars. Reports from Bakwanga at week's end told of streets littered with almost 300 bodies. The few remaining whites were said to have taken refuge...