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Title Items-In-Congo - Reports to the Secretary-General from the Officer-Ln-Charge of the UN Operation in the Congo (S/4531 - S/5053/Add UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page Date 29/06/2006 Time 10:55:13AM S-0888-0005-08-00001 Expanded Number S-0888-0005-08-00001 Title items-in-Congo - reports to the Secretary-General from the Officer-ln-Charge of the UN Operation in the Congo (S/4531 - S/5053/Add. 13) -Volume 1, 2, 3 Date Created 05/12/1960 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0888-0005: United Nations Documents of the Secretary-General: U Thant - Arranged by Subject Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit UNITED NATIONS Distr. F C I S I? I T Y """ " ""—* ~" GENERAL C Vrf U l\ I I T Un U11 Nki Ln ! Li m^rTMm3^WW ENGLIS9 MarcHh 1961 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/ FRENCH REPORT DATED 8 MARCH TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FROM HIS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CONGO ON THE EVENTS RELATING TO THE AIMED CLASHES WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS TEOOFS AND CONGOLESE FORCES AT MOANDA, BANANA AND MATADI ON 3-5 MARCH 1961 The following paragraph, omitted in transmission, should be inserted between paragraphs 28 and 29 on page 11: "28a. Notwithstanding the provision of the cease-fire agreement that 'the Sudanese troops will leave the town of Matadi ... taking with them their arms, ammunition and other military equipment', orders were issued to disarm the Sudanese troops as soon as they left their positions and could no longer defend themselves. Their Commanding Officer was similarly stripped of his weapons, put under armed guard, and together with his troops subjected to vexatious indignities. As the only Leopoldville daily truthfully reported the following day: 'The disarming of the troops was carried out in businesslike fashion by the Congolese soldiers; machine-guns, rifles, cartridges, helmets, everything was taken. It thus came as no small surprise to the population of Kitona this morning to see dozens of "blue-helmets" alighting bare-headed from a special train, and thus bereft of their distinguishing mark}' This was in addition to their weapons and other forms of personal issue, which are now also in possession of the AWC." 61-06915 UN/TED NATIONS Distr. GENERAL SECURITY S/il-761 8 March 1961 COUNCIL ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH REPORT DATED 8 MARCH TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FROM HIS SPECIAL , REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CONGO ON THE EVENTS RELATING TO THE ARMED f CLASHES MICH TOOK PLACE EET/JEEW UNITED NATIONS TROOPS AND CONGOLESE FORCES AT MOANDA, BANANA AND MATADI ON ^-^ MARCH 1961 I. Developments leading to the clashes 1-2. Since the adoption by the Security Council of its resolution of 21 February, signs of hostile feeling against the United Nations, motivated by apprehensions about the purport of the Security Council's decision, began to appear among the Congolese authorities in Leopoldville. The foray of the Stanleyville troops to the outskirts of Luluabourg on 25 February further increased this tension; on 26 February, the Special Representative was invited to a meeting attended by several members of the Leopoldville Government at the end of which Prime Minister Ileo handed to him a letter (S/^750/Add.5). The following morning President K&sa-Vubumade a broadcast, the text of which is reproduced as Annex I, and the ANC Information Bulletin No.l, excerpts of which are reproduced in document S/kj^Q was issued. 5. In the evening of 27 February, the ANC committed several attacks on UN civilian and military personnel in Leopoldville and its vicinity; a summary report on these incidents is reproduced in document S/^753. Attempts to disarm and arrest small UN patrols and individual soldiers continued throughout the week, and several members of the UN Force were detained and maltreated by the ANC. One of the captured Tunisian officers is still missing despite repeated efforts to obtain his return. '+. At the same time, pressure on the UN began to mount in the Bakongo territory around the estuary of the river Congo, where the UN position was substantially weakened by the withdrawal of Moroccan troops for which sufficient replacements could not be provided as all the forces at the United Nations' disposal in the Congo were tied down either in areas threatened by civil war or in Leopoldville. 61-0685^ s 714-761 English Page 2 In the Bakongo area, the UN has the responsibility for the custody of two former Belgian military bases: Kitona, where substantial amounts of war material are stored, and the small'naval base of Banana. In addition a UN unit has been stationed at Matadi. 5. The UN troops deployed in the Bakongo area after the withdrawal of the Moroccans were a Sudanese unit with a total strength of approximately 350 men, including Headquarters personnel. The Command of this unit and over one-half of its personnel has been lodged at Kitona base, with one company of approximately l^O men deployed at Matadi and two sections, numbering approximately 2k- men, at Banana base. The ANC in the Bakongo numbered well over 1,000 men, of whom approximately 600 have been stationed at Matadi, some 60 in a camp adjoining Banana base, and the rest deployed around Boma on the north bank of the Congo River astride the road from Kitona to Matadi. 6. The Port of Matadi is the only harbour in the Congo usable for seagoing vessels, and provides the principal point of entry for all sea shipments. The River Congo is not navigable between Matadi and Leopoldville and transportation between those two places is provided by road and rail, both of which pass through the city of Thysville which has a large garrison of Congolese troops, including artillery and armour. Below Leopoldville, there is no bridge over the Congo River and communications between Matadi on its south shore and the Kitona-Banana area are maintained by a ferry boat. Three airfields are located in the Bakongo area: one at Kitona base, one opposite Matadi on the north shore of the river, and one, the Moanda airfield, about half way between Kitona and Banana base. The latter two are used by commercial flights. 7- In the last days of February, the ANC in the Bakongo area suddenly imposed restrictions on UN movements, over-flights or use of airfields. On 28 February, the ONUC civilian administrator of Kotona base and a sergeant-mechanic were arrested by the AMC at Boma on the pretext that they did not possess a valid travel permit; they were detained for six hours and the sergeant's weapon was confiscated. 8. On the morning of 3 March UN troops observed an increase in the number of ANC Patrols which were more heavily armed than usual. The same morning two incidents occurred: English Page 3 A. Two UN helicopters,, three members of their crew and a UN civilian expert whom they transported to Goma for rendering assistance in the refloating of a tanker were arrested and detained "by the ANC. B. A UN staff member who arrived in Moanda "by a commercial flight to take up his duties as radio officer was arrested upon arrival by the ARC and his luggage seized. In a subsequent conversation Foreign Minister Bomboko explained that the reason for this action was the staff member's failure to carry a UN identification. 9- These developments and incidents seemed to indicate that something was afoot. UN troops deployed in the area, aware of their vulnerability, took the necessary precautions for their security. One of such measures was a warning to officers not to move outside their camps without an armed escort. 10. It is against this background of rising tension and indications of a hostile attitude of ANC personnel against the UN that the fighting which erupted at Moanda, Banana and Matadi finds its proper perspective. 11. Armed clashes on 3, ^ and 5 March 11. A UN committee of investigation was appointed by the Force Commander to establish the causes and circumstances of the fighting which broke out between UN and Congolese army units at Moanda, Banana and Matadi. The following summary of events, except for the section on the Banana incident, was drawn up on the basis of evidence so obtained. A. Moanda incident 12. At 1315 hours on 3 March, Col. Abdul Hamid, Commander of the Sudanese contingent, was proceeding to Moanda Airfield where he intended to Board a commercial flight to. Leopoldville. He was accompanied by his second-in-command and an escort of about a dozen soldiers. At the entrace of the Moanda airstrip, he was wrongfully stopped by an ANC detachment which took up firing positions on both sides of the road. Col. Hamid was dismounted together with 6 of his men who were in a jeep behind him. At this moment one shot was fired; it has not yet been possible to establish clearly who fired the first shot. The first shot was followed by a series of about five shots, which were fired by the Sudanese into the air. Col. Hamid ordered his men to cease fire; whereupon k AWC soldiers dropped their weapons; two surrendered and the rest fled. Col. Hamid instructed A-- s/l+761 English Page k- his second-in-command to return the captured ANC soldiers and arms to their camp in Banana and boarded the plane for Leopoldville as scheduled. B. Banana incident 13• A full investigation of this incident could not yet be carried out due to the interruption of flights between Leopoldville and Kitqna. The following two paragraphs describe the sequence of events as they were reported by signal at the time they occurred: 1^. The Sudanese convoy which accompanied Col.
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