| Port Francqui incident | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Congo Crisis | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 ANC | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown |
Roadblock: Port Francqui:  90 3 2 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
Roadblock: 2 killed |
Roadblock: Port Francqui: 43 killed 2 executed 2 executed | ||||||
The Port Francqui incident, also known as the Port Francqui massacre, was an incident during the Congo Crisis where rogue Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ANC) forces engaged in combat with UN peacekeepers, primarily from Ghana.[1][2][3][4]
It resulted in the largest loss of life the Ghanaian Armed Forces have ever suffered while peacekeeping.
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- ^ Dorn, A. Walter; Bell, David J.H. (Spring 1995). "Intelligence and Peacekeeping: The UN Operation in the Congo 1960–64" (PDF). International Peacekeeping. 2 (1): 26. doi:10.1080/13533319508413535. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^ "410/1 - Project Yellow Knife - Port Francqui Incident - UNARMS". search.archives.un.org.
- ^ "486/11/ORD - Losses at Port Francqui - UNARMS". search.archives.un.org.
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