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A few dozen refugees are massacred by the rebels as they enter Kisangani. [49] Refugees from Wane-Rugula flee and cross into Zaire via Ubundu territory (south of Kisangani). Some of them, notably the ex-FAR, headed for Équateur province, while others sought to reach the safety of Kisangani. The AFDL/APR blocked their progress towards.
This battle also resulted in the end of the Ugandan-Rwandan alliance. Clashes in the city would begin again in June 2000 between the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Uganda People's Defence Force, called the Six-Day War. During the war the Rwandan Patriotic Front successfully pushed the Uganda People's Defense Force out of the city, the conflict ...
The Six-Day War (French: Guerre des Six Jours) was a series of armed confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan forces around the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 5 to 10 June 2000. The war formed part of the wider Second Congo War (1998–2003).
The Kisangani Mutinies are referenced in the hit single "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by singer-songwriter Warren Zevon and former Congo mercenary David Lindell. It is also featured in the 1995 film Outbreak. Both the 1966 and 1967 mutinies are featured in the 2011 film Mister Bob.
[3] The documentary follows a 1997 United Nations discovery of thousands of Hutu refugees along the railway line south of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. The documentary gives account of the massacre that took place the night before the Hutus were found.
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The massacre was actually a series of massacres that began with the killing of 36 Nyindu civilians inside a Catholic church by Rwanda, Ugandan, or Banyamulenge forces. [11] Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War: 1996-1997 200,000-233,000 Kivu Chimanga camp massacre November 17, 1996 300+