Congo Crisis (1965)

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Title

Congo Crisis (1965)

Description

Clockwise starting from top left: ONUC refugee camp for Baluba outside Elisabethville (photo published by American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters); ONUC Swedish peacekeepers tend to wounded comrade in the bush (photo by Dagens Nyheter publication); armed members of the Jeunesse BALUBAKAT (photo published by American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters); three Congolese civilians murdered by Simba rebels in Lodja (photo by Services de Presse); Belgian paratroopers at the airfield in Paulis (photo by United States Air Force); Congolese soldiers and mercenaries fighting Simba rebels (photo by United States Air Force). All photographs are in the public domain in the United States.

Creator

Indy beetle

Date

2017

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons

Format

856 × 973 pixels, file size: 688 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg

Type

Still Image

Language

English

Source

Wikimedia Commons

Rights

"Congo Crisis collage" by Indy beetle is licensed under CC0 1.0

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

photograph

Physical Dimensions

856 × 973

Associated Course

Seminar in African History "Battleground Africa: Cold War Burning Hot" (uOttawa HIS 4186)

Student Cataloguer

Arsenault, Joel

Citation

Indy beetle, “Congo Crisis (1965),” Recipro: The history of international and humanitarian aid, accessed November 22, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/recipro/items/show/297.

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