The death of UN secretary-general dag Hammarskjold is already 58 years one of the most important ‘cold cases’ in the world. The Swede came in 1961 in Africa to life when his plane crashed above the current Zambia. The cause of the crash despite numerous studies never officially obsolete: was it a technical failure, or was the plane out of the sky shot? In a new documentary, claim researchers now, however, that as a Belgian pilot behind the attack was.
We write september 1961. A murky period in and around the Congo, which the year before had become an independent Belgium. In the chaos that follows rips the southerly and resource-rich province Katanga, supported by western powers such as the United Kingdom and the United States. But also, our country supports the grouping around the rebel leader, Moïse Tshombe in the geniep, to defend his interests and those of the large mining companies to secure.
also Read New information about the mysterious plane crash in which the head of the UN in 1961, died
The question of Katanga ends up at the United Nations: secretary-general dag Hammarskjold will fly to Northern Rhodesia, today Zambia, in order to mediate and negotiate peace between all parties involved. But on Monday, september 18, just after midnight, not long before Hammarskjölds plane was about to land, deposit the Albertina down over the city of Ndola. Fifteen passengers, among whom Hammarskjöld themselves are dead, the only surviving passenger is killed a week later in the hospital.
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is an investigation into the crash, to no avail. Also later studies by the United Nations, or by Sweden, can not lead to a conclusion about the cause. Crashed the plane after a technical problem, or was there more to it? After almost sixty years, there is still no definitive answer to that question.
Or do they? In the documentary ” Cold Case Hammarskjold’, which is about two weeks, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, claim researchers clues to have found that Hammarskjölds plane is shot down by a pilot who was in command of the rebel group known around Tshombe. That writes The Guardian.
That pilot would be in addition to the name, Jan van Risseghem listening: a Belgian born from a Belgian father and a British mother, name and fame made as a pilot for the British army during the Second world War. Van Risseghem fled at the beginning of the war, together with his brother Maurice to Britain and went into service with the Royal Air Force , the famous British air force.
