The Katangese Gendarmerie (French: Gendarmerie Katangaise), officially the Katangese Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées Katangaises), was the paramilitary...
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military and paramilitary formations under the auspices of the Katangese Gendarmerie. It was also intended to include a small air force established from...
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outcome of any internal conflict." The mobilisation of a Katangese army, dubbed the Katangese Gendarmerie, troubled UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who...
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Operation Grandslam (section Katangese surrender)
Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Central Africa. The Katangese forces were decisively defeated and Katanga was forcibly reintegrated...
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transitioning into mercenaries while they continued to head the Katangese gendarmerie. This made it more challenging to link them to the Belgian state...
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end to Katangese resistance to UN policy by destruction of Gendarmerie and other anti-UN resistance". On 28 November 1961 members of the Katangese Gendarmerie...
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political party that was founded by rebels of Katangese origin and composed of ex-members of the Katangese Gendarmerie. It was active mainly in Angola and Zaire...
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Battle of Kabalo (section Katangese secession)
and the gendarmerie of the State of Katanga, a secessionist state rebelling against the Republic of the Congo in central Africa. The Katangese forces attacked...
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Katangese Gendarmerie during the Congo Crisis. The attack was part of Operation Unokat which aimed to break the roadblocks set up by the gendarmerie by...
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The Katangese Tigers or the Tigres are Katangese fighters. The term originally referred to ex-members of the Katangese Gendarmerie who refused to surrender...
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