Moise Tshombe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/moise-tshombe/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Moise Tshombe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/moise-tshombe/ 32 32 UN to order new probe into 1961 plane crash that killed Dag Hammarskjöld https://jjcornish.com/2016/12/un-order-new-probe-1961-plane-crash-killed-dag-hammarskjold/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/12/un-order-new-probe-1961-plane-crash-killed-dag-hammarskjold/ The United Nations General Assembly is about to pass a resolution calling for yet another investigation into the 1961 air crash in Zambia that killed then United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. The four previous robes have failed to satisfy many, including for US President Harry Truman, who suspected could play. ends intro It has […]

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The United Nations General Assembly is about to pass a resolution calling for yet another investigation into the 1961 air crash in Zambia that killed then United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld.

The four previous robes have failed to satisfy many, including for US President Harry Truman, who suspected could play.

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It has recently emerged that convoys of Land Rovers carrying white men were seen near the crash site in what was then Northern Rhodesia.

UN boss Dag Hammarskjöld was negotiating a peace deal in the Congo.

He was on his way to see Moise Tshombe in Ndola when he crashed.

Former US president Harry Truman told reporters Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him.

Now, more than 50 years on, the UN is poised to accept that the findings of pilot error its original inquiry could be wrong.

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