Talk:Katanga insurgency

Casualty Counts
I have so far failed to find any good sources for casualty counts for the various groups involved and have left i at unknown, any idea if they can be found? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AbsolutelyHaram (talk • contribs) 04:01, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I have failed to find the correct date the conflict started also. Congolese websites might have the answers.--Catlemur (talk) 09:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll try to contact some professors and ask if they have any info, i can't read french so i'm not sure how well I'd do with Congolese websites. AbsolutelyHaram (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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FLNC
@Applodiondo you have a way I can read the Osprey source you mentioned about the FLNC? I have the Kennes & Larmer citation open, and it says that Mbumba was an advocate of secession "at times." I'm going off of the official FLNC documents and speeches like this book by themselves where they explicitly say that the invasion of Katanga was not a secessionist thing; while yes it's a primary source and incredibly biased, their communiques and "minimum political program" were for an overthrow of the government totally, not separating Katanga.

I've been on a binge of FLNC-related material recently, so I'm honestly asking to make sure we have an accurate picture. NorthTension (talk) 23:11, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course. Though I cannot provide the entire, book, I will give a bit of what Abbott (the Osprey author) says: He categorizes the FLNC primarily as "a force of exiled Katangans [which] tried to retake control of their native province" (p. 22). Flavia Gasbarri, in US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa, calls the FLNC "a separatist movement" (Section "Southern Africa"), as do Stephen Wright in African Foreign Policies (Section "The Foreign Policy of a Decaying State"), and Wayne P. Limberg in The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (p. 84). Kennes & Larmer make the entire problem clearer, by stating that the exiles in Angola initially "enabled a continuation of the seccessionist project from exile", but that Mbumba made the exiles (as part of the FLNC) "a more effective fighting machine but reduced their direct links to Katanga" (p. 98). The question of the FLNC's separatism is concentrated on its self-presentation vs. the interests of the majority of its members. The leadership, most importantly Mbumba, was clearly calling for a general reform of the entire Congo and seemingly positioned themselves as Congolese nationalists. For the remainder of the FLNC, however, it was less clear-cut. They continued to consider themselves as Katangese, an identity they still maintained by the First Congo War. Officially, the FLNC was not separatist; however, in spirit, it still was, and this is reflected in the sources. Applodion (talk) 09:10, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Completely forgot to finish typing this but thank you so much! I'm trying to add some meat to the FLNC proper's page so if you want to help out with that at all it'd be an absolute life saver haha.
 * Thank you very much again ^^! NorthTension (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2023 (UTC)