Posted on 12/29/2014 11:35:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
The U.N. General Assembly voted unanimously Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961.
The 193-member world body approved a resolution by consensus encouraging member states to release any relevant records and information on his death in the plane crash over the African bush in Northern Rhodesia—today’s Zambia.
The assembly’s action follows an independent investigation by a Commission of Jurists released in September 2013 which concluded that “significant new evidence” exists which might shed light on the circumstances of Hammarskjöld’s death. It said the U.S. National Security Agency may hold crucial evidence, which remains classified.
Hammarskjöld was flying into a war zone infested with mercenaries and riven by Cold War tensions. …
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“Hammarskjöld was flying into a war zone infested with mercenaries and riven by Cold War tensions”
Well who could ever think THAT was dangerous? Airliners should do that without a second thought. There’s almost no chance of any tragic mistakes.
What the general story comes down to....is whether a mining company hired up the mercenaries, and used Soviet or US-made weapons to down the aircraft....like a SA-7.
Beyond that....there’s nothing much else to the story. And I seriously doubt that concrete proof one way or the other will ever come to the surface.
What difference at this point does it make?
To quote Hillary: “What difference does it make!” It’s been over 50 years.
And the only member state mentioned is the US?
I guess the article means we might have to re-consider our lexicon if this was a case of “Ron Brown-ing” before Ron Brown, thus making it “Dag Hammerskjold-ing” instead. Doesn’t really roll off the keyboard...
I was in high school when he was killed..
I thought that they determined then that the plane had been shot down, or blew up..
it was assassination of some kind, anyway...
It’s never too late to pin anything on George W. Bush.
Were Cubans there?
When Moon praises Hammarskjöld he is praising himself. This is why it matters to the UN orthodoxy and its curia.
They will spare no American taxpayer's expense to cast suspicions on American taxpayers and their agents.
Wasn’t Dag a fruit?
He was believed to be but apparently never openly.
I honestly don't remember the last time I even mulled over the phenomena of "Dag," and can't any longer remember even how to pronounce his name. All the people who once read his name aloud on television, for example, are all also dead.
It just seemed to me his activist model may have been the template for the corrupt super-orthodox diplomat bureaucrats who've followed after him.
Still, it would go along with being "loud and proud," wouldn't it? And as I hazily ponder what I do remember, come to think of it, I think I read such mullings about Dag's kind of Stag somewhere else, but even that was more than a decade ago.
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