The darkest moment of the United Nations

Erika 2022-08-06 23:16:34

On September 18, 1961, the second UN Secretary-General, Hammarskjöld from Sweden, went to Congo to mediate the conflict. His special plane crashed in Zambia and no one survived. Basically at the same time, in the Katanga province of Congo, about 200 mercenaries belonging to Western mining companies raided a 150-man Irish infantry peacekeeping force stationed in Jadauville. The latter surrendered without resisting, with no casualties. Therefore, whether it is a historical documentary or a war movie, this film is also quite an anti-Japanese drama. The light machine gun can be used as a sniper rifle with a single shot? This segment will soon be plagiarized by domestic dramas. The interesting thing is yet to come: Although "The Expendable Goose" introduced in 1985 is adapted from a novel, the novel has prototype characters and historical facts. The Congolese president who was rescued by 50 death fighters should be the man behind the Yadoville incident. The infamous Katangan warlord Moses Tshombe was defeated and exiled by the United Nations a year later. The prototype of the French mercenary commander is the Irishman Mike Hall, the best military commander in Africa in the 1960s. Therefore, the so-called Siege of Yadauville was actually an Irish commander, commanding mercenaries from the French Foreign Legion, and packing up the Irish peacekeeping forces.

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  • Madame LaFontagne: This place killed my husband. Radiation. The two bombs that America used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from the mines here in Jadotville.

  • John Gorman: I felt scared.

    Pat Quinlan: It's only natural.

    John Gorman: No, that's not it. I was scared. But then I liked it. The killing.

    Pat Quinlan: It's what you're trained to do.

    John Gorman: *You* didn't like it.

    Pat Quinlan: Each man reacts differently to killing another man. None of us have done this before. Talk to me in a few days.