History of the Congo
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History of the Congo
The Congo people wanted their independence. The country
was actually run, it was a colony of Belgium so an
agreement came that at a certain date they would take and
turn over, give the government the country to the
Congolese and the Belgiques were supposed to stay there
for a period, a certain period of time to oversee, to oversee
the operating of the government. When it was given to them,
then what happened was that you had the war lords
that wanted to take over and they wanted to run the country
themselves, they want, they didn’t want the Belgiques in
there whatsoever. And a lot of the Belgiques, some of
them got massacred and so on. And they just didn’t want
them there. And the first troops that went in, the UN,
there were some, there were paratroopers, Canadians and
and they were dressed with their red beret and so on.
They were mistaken as Belgiques.
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