Significant1978

Shaba II Invasion

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Kolwezi

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Second FNLC incursion that captured Kolwezi and massacred European miners, ended by the French Foreign Legion's parachute drop and Belgian para-commando operations.

Belligerents5

Zaire
FNLC
France
Belgium
United States

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Shaba II Invasion (1978). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/shaba-ii-invasion · Sources & methodology