What will the result be for 150 vs 3000 people? The Siege of Jadoville gives you the answer

Film Overview: __________

Douban score: 7.4

Time: 2016

Country: Ireland

Category: War

Duration: 108 minutes

Directed by: Richie Smyth

Starring: Jamie Donan, Mark Strand, Gyyom Cane, Jason O'Mala, Michael McElhatton

Synopsis: __________

In this Siege of Yadoville, the film is based on the real siege of 150 Irish United Nations peacekeepers led by Commander Pat Quinlan in 1961 on a peacekeeping mission in the Congo. In 1961, the pro-Western General Mowassé Chumber took control of Katanga province and assassinated patrice Lumumba, then Democratically Elected Prime Minister of the Congo. Quinlan led his troops into a fierce battle with a local force of 3,000 men commanded by French and Belgian mercenaries. Jamie Donan played Pat Quinlan in the Siege of Yadoville, an Irish commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force.

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In the midst of the chaos, on 30 June 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was established, and the first hastily elected Prime Minister was Patrice Lumumba and the first Head of State was President Joseph Kasavub. King Baudouin of Belgium came to Leopoldville for the ceremony, where he delivered a stupid, smug speech that provoked the new Congolese Prime Minister to reply angrily, "We are no longer your monkeys!" Lumumba roared angrily. The Belgian Royal Entourage left in a fit of rage, but Lumumba was pleased, and his words had an exciting effect on the agitated crowd, currying favor with the masses and sometimes even seeming to agitate the Congolese to attack the Europeans and plunder their property.

Lumumba has a large following in the nationally divided Congo, and it seems that he is ready to become a leader, able to unite the country under his leadership. Unfortunately, what he took over was an irreparable situation. Lumumba's increasingly strident, anti-Western, anti-capitalist attitude raised the alarm of his fellow politicians, notably the conservative Casabu and Lumumba's former deputy, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, now an officer. Anti-white, anti-European, and anti-Western sentiment intensified in Congo, so almost all experienced Belgian managers and technicians fled the country, paralyzing the Congolese government and economy. With the departure of belgian police and officers, even the lowest level of public order could not be maintained. Worse still, there was a sense of vengeance in the Belgian intelligence services, who did everything in their power to sow discord among the various rival ethnic groups in the Congo. France, on the other hand, which has been fighting with Belgium for dominance of French-speaking Africa in the post-colonial era, has been making trouble for the Belgians and their local allies in Congo. At the same time, the insidious mining cartels that have been controlling Congo's copper and cobalt resources, belonging to the Anglo-Belgian Joint Mining Company of Upper Katanga, have been acting in secret all along, doing everything in their power to ensure that their monopoly rights can be sustained.

In the eventful spring and summer of 1960, Katanga remained relatively calm like an isolated island. As Belgian troops retreated from northern and eastern Congo, they quietly regrouped in the south and were stationed near the Corvezi mine of the Haute-Katanga United Mining Company, near the Kamina air base, and along the railway line connecting the mines with transshipment points in Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The United Mining Company supplies most of the world's copper, almost all of its cobalt, and vast quantities of uranium (the uranium used to end World War II's atomic bomb was produced in Katanga). So Katanga saw himself as vital to Western interests and indulged in close ties with the Belgian government and army. Using the financial resources of the Upper Katanga United Mining Company, Belgian officers recruited, trained and equipped the company with a large private army, the Katanga Gendarmerie, which they used to strengthen order and ensure that production was undisturbed in the Sugatanga region.

Due to the weakness of the legitimate Congolese government and the growing apparentness of the Prime Minister's strong xenophobic policies, United Mining decided that it could no longer rely on Leopoldville to protect its rights. So the company set out to split the mineral-rich katanga and diamond-rich kasai province from Congo. With the help of the Belgian army and intelligence services, the company organized ambitious tribal chiefs, local politicians, and die-hard European settlers to launch a semblance of independence. On 11 July 1960, Konacat Leader Moiz Chomber declared Katanga independent and assumed himself head of government. Luba leader Albert Karongi followed suit, declaring independence for Nankai in August. Since these two provinces provide almost all of the central government's revenues, they can be sure that there will be little effective opposition.

In Katanga, Belgian forces immediately disarmed Congolese Government forces under the banner of "peacekeeping" and formally "withdrew" from the country. Informally, they were actually seconded to the Katanga Gendarmerie Unit in Chong Bo. Large quantities of Belgian weapons were smuggled in by the mining company's railways, transported to the town of Teixeira de Sausa, the copper ore hub of Angola, for whitewashing, transshipment and then airlifted to Corvezi airport. Belgium simply "abandoned" the weapon-laden T6G trainer aircraft, thus giving the Katanga a ready-made air force. To make the self-styled Katanga Air Force more intimidating, modern equipment is needed than the effective but older aircraft of the T6G. United Mining also purchased three weapons-laden Fuga "Teacher" jet trainers directly from French manufacturers. In February 1961, the aircraft were airlifted from Toulouse and loaded onto the seven-seas shipping company's freighter YC-97 (N9045C). The "Teacher" trainer aircraft joined the Katanga Air Force, which received serial numbers 91, 92 and 93 respectively, and the Katanga Air Force's belongings at that time also included two DH Vampire fighter-bombers, Skylark helicopters, Do 28a Air Servants and C-47 transport aircraft supplied by South Africa, which were deployed at the airports of Kissenge, Carbongo, Yadoville and Corvezy, respectively. To protect The Belgian forces and other technical experts in Katanga, The Union Mining Company openly recruited hundreds of French, German, and South African mercenaries, known as the "Terrible Men," most of whom had just participated in the abortive coup d'état carried out by the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, many of whom had previously served in the Wehrmacht and SS.