Round 9: 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 (-5[1])William Stairs was called a traitor for claiming this region’s Yeke Kingdom and assassinating its leader, Msiri, (10[1])on behalf of a colonial rival. This region’s colonial UMHK company (-5[1])evolved into the national company Gécamines (-5[1])(“jay-kah-MEEN”). This region, once renamed Shaba, contains the Shinkolobwe Mine that supplied the Manhattan Project’s uranium (-5[1])and the Kamoto (10[1])Mine that is the largest cobalt mine (10[1])today. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Mïse (-5[1])Tshombe led a secession (-5[1])movement from what copper-producing region during the Congo (10[1])Crisis? (0[1])■END■ (10[3]0[4])

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