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Shaba II
| Shaba II | |||||||
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| Part of the Shaba Invasions and the Cold War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 FNLC | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Nathaniel Mbumba | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Zaire: 14 killed 8 wounded[1] Civilians: 500 killed France:[1] 11 killed 20 wounded Belgium:[1] 1 killed Morocco:[1] 1 paratrooper killed European civilians: 120 killed[1] United States:[1] 1 aircraft slightly damaged 1 crewman wounded |
Katanga:[1] ~250 killed - 400 killed 160 captured | ||||||
Shaba II was a brief conflict fought in the Zairean province of Shaba (now Katanga) in 1978. The conflict broke out on 11 May 1978 after 6,500 rebels from the Congolese National Liberation Front (FNLC), a Katangese separatist militia, crossed the border from Angola into Zaire in an attempt to achieve the province's secession from the Zairian regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. The FNLC captured the important mining town of Kolwezi.[2]
- ^ a b c d e f g Ministère de la Défense. ""OPÉRATION LÉOPARD" Une intervention humanitaire Kolwezi 17 mai-16 juin 1978" (PDF). Collection « Mémoire et Citoyenneté » n° 37. Defense.gouv.fr. p. 8. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Widstrand, Carl Gösta, Timothy M. Shaw, and Douglas George Anglin. Canada, Scandinavia, and Southern Africa, 1978. Page 130.
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