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Megane 2022-08-06 19:58:39
Don't let the soldiers chill
Yesterday, I watched a film "Siege of Yadauville" adapted from real events in Ireland. The shooting scenes were hot and the plot was ups and downs, showing us an impossible task. 150 Irish soldiers who had never fought were organized by the United Nations as a peacekeeping force to perform missions...
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Erika 2022-08-06 23:16:34
The darkest moment of the United Nations
On September 18, 1961, the second UN Secretary-General, Hammarskjöld from Sweden, went to Congo to mediate the conflict. His special plane crashed in Zambia and no one survived. Basically at the same time, in the Katanga province of Congo, about 200 mercenaries belonging to Western mining companies...
Extended Reading
The Siege of Jadotville quotes
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Pat Quinlan: We'll hold out until our last bullet is spent. We could do with that whiskey.
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Sgt. Jack Prendergast: We've used every bullet twice. What do we do now?
