Packet H: Tossup 7

Veteran “Tigers” named for being from this region were displaced after a non-Indian “Operation Grand Slam” and became mercenaries for the MPLA and AFDL. (10[1])In 1990, a shadow group called “the owls” hacked 300 student protestors into pieces in a university named for this region’s capital. (10[1])British colonel (-5[1])William Stairs was called a traitor for claiming this region’s Yeke (-5[1])Kingdom (10[1])and assassinating (10[1])its leader, (10[1])Msiri, (10[1])on behalf of a colonial rival. (-5[1])This region’s colonial UMHK company (-5[1])evolved into the national company (10[1])Gécamines (-5[1])(“jay-kah-MEEN”). This region, once renamed Shaba, (-5[2])contains (-5[1])the (10[1])Shinkolobwe (10[1])Mine (10[1])that supplied (10[3])the Manhattan Project’s (-5[1])uranium (-5[5])and the (10[1]-5[1])Kamoto (10[2]-5[2])Mine (10[1]-5[3])that is (10[1]-5[1])the largest cobalt (10[1]-5[1])mine (10[1])today. (10[3]-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])Mïse (10[1]-5[2])Tshombe (10[2]-5[1])led a (10[1])secession (10[1]-5[1])movement (10[2])from (10[1])what (10[1])copper-producing (10[1])region during the Congo (10[1])Crisis? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[18]0[23])

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