no centralized leadership (first mutiny) Jean Schramme (second mutiny)
Strength
32,000 troops
2,000 (first mutiny)
1,100 (second mutiny)
The Kisangani mutinies, also known as the Stanleyville mutinies or Mercenaries' mutinies, occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1966 and 1967.
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The Kisangani mutinies, also known as the Stanleyvillemutinies or Mercenaries' mutinies, occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1966 and...
Uprisings by former Katangan gendarmeries were crushed, as were the Stanleyvillemutinies of 1967 led by white mercenaries. By 1970, nearly all potential...
Kisangani in 1966. In 1966 and 1967, Kisangani was the site of the Stanleyvillemutinies, which led to widespread looting. With the assumption of the "Zairianisation"...
They were involved in several mutinies and attempted invasions of the Congo, most notably the Stanleyvillemutinies in 1966 and 1967. After 1967, around...
However, this phase was never carried out due to the outbreak of the Stanleyvillemutinies. Regardless, historian Gérard Prunier concluded that most of the...
power, his position was soon threatened by the Stanleyvillemutinies, also known as the Mercenaries' Mutinies, which were eventually suppressed. As a general...
and 1967, two mutinies in Stanleyville broke out involving up to 800 Katangese gendarmes and former mercenaries of Tshombe. The mutinies were eventually...
five years. Mobutu quickly consolidated his power, despite the Stanleyvillemutinies of 1966 and 1967, and was elected unopposed as president in a sham...
Congo (French: République Libre du Congo), often referred to as Congo-Stanleyville, was a short-lived rival government to the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Léopoldville)...
June 1960, a mutiny broke out in the army, marking the beginning of the Congo Crisis. After a coup, Lumumba attempted to escape to Stanleyville to join his...
in 1960, November 1964 (Operation Dragon Rouge), the 1967 second Stanleyvillemutiny and again in 1978 (during Shaba II). In the Middle East, EUCOM provided...
the split also divided the MNC between the Lumumba-ists who held the Stanleyville region and its faction, which became the MNC-Kalonji (MNC-K; after Albert...
limits the number of political parties to two July Second of the Stanleyvillemutinies led by Jean Schramme lasts from July to November, when it was crushed...
drew most of its membership from the residents of the eastern city of Stanleyville and from the population of the Kasai Province, where efforts were directed...
suffered from institutional problems. During the early years of the force, mutinies of black soldiers occurred several times. By the early 1890s, much of the...
mercenaries. The objective of Operation Dragon Rouge was to capture Stanleyville and save several hundred civilians (mostly Europeans and missionaries)...
the Western press as a hero. He wrote about Stanleyville as occupied by the Simbas: "The mayor of Stanleyville, Sylvere Bondekwe, a greatly respected and...
was suspected of complicity with the soldiers in Goma who had triggered a mutiny in Bukavu in February 2004, and on January 23, 2005, he was switched with...
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