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Regional1959

Leopoldville Riots

Leopoldville

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Days of rioting in the Belgian Congo's capital that broke Belgian confidence in continued colonial rule and triggered the rapid timetable to independence.

Belligerents1

  • Belgian Congo

ON THE MAPBelgian Congo

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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