Talk:Dag Hammarskjöld

Death

"South Africa Archishop Desmond Tutu, head of the South African Commission still investigating and exposing the crimes of the apartheid era, has come upon documents said to point to a Western plot to kill U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in 1961!" [1]

See also:

• Letters Say Hammarskjold Death Western Plot
• UN assassination plot denied
• Letters Say UN Sec-Gen Dag Hammarskjold's Death A Western Plot
• NOTES FOR MEDIA BRIEFING BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

Humanitarian

I can't argue that he wasn't a humanitarian. He won the Nobel Peace prize..!

So I'll agree with Filipman on that one that category:Humanitarians is warranted. So lets stop reverting with the edit summary "trolling" or "vandalism". If you want to comment, do so here.

Fred-Chess 13:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Removed Cite

I have removed a citeation to [2] because it is broken. Problem remains that this is a needed cite, as the information presented is controversial. It is the Death Section, with the text "One TRC letter said that a bomb in the aircraft's wheel-bay was set to detonate when the wheels came down for landing." --DanielBC 02:33, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Assassination

It has been widely reported that the plane was shot down by a Belgian mercinary fighter-pilot. He was flying a French-made Super-Magister fighter jet. There were numerous accounts of this left out of the official report - reportedly because the accounts differed from one to the other. This has even been reported in popular media, in documentaries and interviews.

Then there is also the story of the Belgians actually trowing a party to celebrate the event at some royal palace. And even inviting a certain Swedish diplomat to the party, to his disgust.

Sources for this ? --El magnifico June 2006 (UTC)

I lived in the area of Ndola at the time of the incident. This is the first that I have heard of any Belgian jet. The only similar report was that a couple of Mustangs (WWII Vintage) flown by mercenaries that were seen in the area by two local boys but this was never substantiated. --Vumba 16:24, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually the local boys that saw Mustangs were only a few of many that saw strange things that night. Among these sightings were flashes in the sky before the crash, plane going down in flames, tracer fire from another aircraft, some saw/heard a jet - others a prop aircraft, some saw one plane - some more planes.

The precence of a Fouga-Magister fighter jet in Katanga is certain. We know this plane hit UN forces many times during peacekeeping operations, and we know it was flown by Belgian mercinaries. We know that the crew of Hammarskjölds plane was very experienced, and one of the most experienced in using airfields in this area. They never reported any problems, yet they just suddenly vanished.

We know that the CIA, SOE and the Belgian foreign office were in bed together, trying to maintain control of the Congo at all cost. Killing the UN secretary general was maby not such a big thing for them.--El magnifico 22:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)