“Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.”
Harry Truman
US President
(September 19 1961)
According to the UN’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq, “significant new information” has been submitted to the inquiry for this latest update.
This included probable intercepts by Member States of communications related to the crash, the capacity of Katanga’s armed forces, or others, to mount an attack on SE-BDY and the involvement of foreign paramilitary or intelligence personnel in the area at the time.
The latest UN report assesses that it is “almost certain” specific, crucial and so far undisclosed information exists in the archives of Member States.
The United Kingdom and the United States have been identified as possessing undisclosed documents pertinent to the case. Despite requests from UN-appointed investigators, these nations have not fully cooperated in releasing relevant materials.
And one should also be suspicious of Belgium’s role, especially considering its colonial history in the Congo and its connections to mining interests like Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK).
It is very likely that the Belgian Sate and UMHK still hold unreleased files on Congo’s decolonization and Katanga’s secession. Läs artikel