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The 1960 Belgian Congo Army Mutiny: The Belgian Perspective
In this special 200th episode, Lucas and Luna revisit the 1960 Force Publique mutiny from a fresh angle: the Belgian side of the story. While the mutiny itself turned the Congo's army against its Belgian officers, the response in Brussels was chaotic and telling. King Baudouin, the government of Gaston Eyskens, and the commanders of the Force Publique all scrambled to make sense of the collapse of colonial rule. Drawing on the memoirs of Émile Janssens, the general who famously wrote 'Before independence = After independence' on a blackboard, and the tense negotiations at Camp…
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