| Whites Flee: Newly Independent Congo In Upheaval | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1673 |
| Catalog #: | 363462 | |
| Clip Number: | 363462-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 033-056-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:47:35 - 00:48:27 | |
| Location: | Congo, Zaire and Belgium | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Fear GOVERNMENT: Misc IMMIGRATION: Misc. LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire, Belgian Congo) WAR & CONFLICT: Refugees WAR & CONFLICT: Revolution, Congo 1960 | |
| Description: | In the newly-independent Congo, less than 11 days after official freedom from Belgium, violence and terror as native Congolese troops mutiny and begin a far-ranging siege of looting and pillaging. Thousands of whites flee. Belgian paratroopers are hastily recalled to battle mutineers. Jeeps filled with soldiers patrolling the streets due to the violence that has broken out in the Congo. MS - Congolese troops sitting on a log that was placed next to a building. Passenger plane taxing on the run-way delivering refugees from the Congo, to Belgian. MS - European refugees disembarking from a plane. MS - Mothers carrying their babies off the plane. MS - Crowded airport area outside the terminal, soldiers, women military members and Europeans and European refugees. | |
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