Round 12: 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 (-5[1])the Shinkolobwe Mine that supplied the Manhattan Project’s uranium and the Kamoto (-5[1])Mine that is (-5[1])the largest cobalt mine today. (-5[1])For 10 points, Mïse Tshombe led a secession movement from what copper-producing region during the Congo Crisis? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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