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Force Publique

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Force Publique

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Force Publique mutiny exposes the limits of Congo’s rushed transfer

đź“… 5 July 1960

Five days after independence, Congolese soldiers of the Force Publique mutinied against a Belgian-led command that had not been Africanized. Belgian officers’ insulting insistence that independence...