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The
UN
intervened
to
protect
the
retreat
of
Belgian
troops
and
the
stability
of
the
country
by
controlling
the
neutralization
of
the
foreigner
soldiers,
paramilitaries,
and
mercenaries. On
November
11,
1961,
a
division
of
Italian
airmen
who
delivered
foodstuffs
to
the
population
of
the
ex-Belgian
Congo,
was
barbarously
killed
at
Kindu. From
1964
to
1973,
the
Italian
Air
Force
maintained
a
training
mission
in
the
Congo. |
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At the N'Dili airport of Leopoldville (to day Kisasha), there was the Italian base.
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