In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. With Aksel Hennie, Tobias Santelmann, Ine F. Jansen, Dennis Storhøi. Directed by Marius Holst. There’s going to be no Boko Haram. Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth Society - 26 min - ★ 8.63 Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth explores the role...; Blood Coltan Conspiracy - 52 min - ★ 8.26 The mobile phone is a remarkable piece of engineering. Altogether, about three hundred of those captured were expelled from Congo, although several of the mercenaries later returned. The exploits of 'soldiers of fortune' have been told in countless books and films, but rarely do the accounts linger on the manacled, humiliated mercenary rotting in a jail cell, or the half-naked corpse being dragged through the bush. Anthony Meckler's "The New Mercenaries" covers the violent post-colonial period in Africa from about 1960 to 1981. The Reds wanted the vast mineral wealth of the Congo, but America in the form of the CIA stepped in and, assisted by Belgium, funded a mercenary army whose objective was to keep the Congo aligned to Western interests. Included are summaries of mercenary actions in Mozambique, Angola, the Congo, and elsewhere in that troubled continent. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache. “The South African mercenaries are giving Boko Haram a hiding. "A Secret Legacy" is a documentary in production that tells the personal journey of Frank Alvarez, a 61-year-old Cuban immigrant, on a quest to find out the truth about his deceased father, Panchito, who was one of … WHEN the mercenaries of the 51st Commando fought their way into this sleepy Congo River town, they came across a wounded rebel lying by the roadside. These guys are in their 50s, but for a pilot or tank driver it doesn’t really matter. Among the threads followed by Mads Brügger’s documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld are the stories of a Belgian mercenary pilot known as the Lone Ranger, a … Many of the myths of the modern mercenary started in the Congo. It was withdrawn in 1964. White Katangans especially resented this action by the UN. The United Nations Operation in the Congo (French: Opération des Nations Unies au Congo, abbreviated to ONUC) was a peacekeeping force established by the United Nations to maintain order in the Republic of the Congo on 14 July 1960 amid the Congo Crisis.ONUC was the UN's first peacekeeping mission with significant military capabilities. BUMBA, The Congo. Tshombe was taken by surprise, and tensions escalated rapidly. His foot had been blown off. Today, the details on the Congo operation remain classified by the CIA. The Congo had been engulfed by a communist-backed armed rebellion in early 1964, after four years of independence from Belgium. The United States, Mercenaries and the Congo 1964-1965 - Piero Gleijeses Soldiers of Fortune - Mercenary Wars - Congo 1960/68 US Dept of State Office of the Historian Congo Document 430 - Fizi Baraka area Contingency Authorizatio n