A Deadly Mission: UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and the Congo
PeB Journal | International Politics, Opinions, Peace Building, Sub-Saharan Africa
By Henning Melber
It was the night of 17 to 18 September, 1961. A DC6 plane named ‘Albertina’ (officially: SE-BDY) was approaching Ndola, the mining town in Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) bordering to the Congo. On board was Dag Hammarskjöld, the then Secretary-General of the …