Round 6: 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. In 1990, a shadow group called “the owls” hacked 300 student protestors into pieces in a university named for this region’s capital. British colonel William Stairs was called a traitor for claiming this region’s Yeke Kingdom and assassinating its leader, Msiri, on behalf of a colonial rival. This region’s colonial UMHK company evolved into the national company Gécamines (“jay-kah-MEEN”). This region, once renamed Shaba, contains the Shinkolobwe Mine that supplied the Manhattan Project’s uranium and the Kamoto Mine that is the largest cobalt mine today. For 10 points, Mïse Tshombe led a secession movement from what copper-producing region during the Congo Crisis? ■END■
ANSWER: Katanga [accept Shaba until read; accept Haut-Katanga; prompt on Lualaba, Haut-Lomami, or Tanganyika by asking “what province were these modern provinces part of prior to 2015?”] (The first line refers to the Katangese Tigers.)
<DM, World History> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A
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