"We Did Not Wish to Wage a Colonial War"
Anticolonial Conflicts: Belgium and the Congo
Speech
By: Louis M. Scheyven
Date: May 15, 1961
Source: Vital Speeches of the Day.
About the Author: Louis M. Scheyven served as the Belgian Ambassador to the United States during the early 1960s. Vital Speeches of the Day is a bi-weekly magazine that has archived speeches delivered by leaders since 1934.
INTRODUCTION
The independence of the Belgian Congo, later known as both Zaire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, came unexpectedly in 1960 with no preliminary armed struggle. Influenced by independence movements in other parts of Africa, the Congolese began to press for an end to Belgian colonial rule....
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