History of the Congo

The Congo people wanted their independence. The country was actually run, it was a colony of Belgium so an agreement came that at a certain date they would take and turn over, give the government the country to the Congolese and the Belgiques were supposed to stay there for a period, a certain period of time to oversee, to oversee the operating of the government. When it was given to them, then what happened was that you had the war lords that wanted to take over and they wanted to run the country themselves, they want, they didn’t want the Belgiques in there whatsoever. And a lot of the Belgiques, some of them got massacred and so on. And they just didn’t want them there. And the first troops that went in, the UN, there were some, there were paratroopers, Canadians and they were dressed with their red beret and so on. They were mistaken as Belgiques.