The Full Story of the Congo Ambush
In 1960 the Irish people were devastated by news that nine of the soldiers that they had sent to the Congo as part of a U.N. peace mission had been killed by Baluba warriors. Their funeral cortège in Dublin was watched by thousands of people who knew the men had been killed in an ambush but very little else. Soon afterwards journalist Tom McCaughren began a two-year search to find out what had happened and in 1966 put the results of that search in entitled The Peacemakers of Niemba. Now he brings the story up to date as the book ...
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