Talk:First Congo War

message: The article has this "Soviet-backed leaders like Patrice Lumumba, who had been deposed in 1960 with Belgian and CIA assistance."  I take two issues with this, although I dont know enough about the topic to edit the article.
1 Is it true that Lumumba really was Soviet-backed?  In my research, he had saught the help of the Soviets just as he had western countries, but was on the whole unsuccessful on both fronts.  The US perception was that Lumumba was either in league with the Soviets or volunerable to that, but the article makes it sound like he uncertainly was. 
2 The deposition of Lumumba, again, in my research, seems to have had relatively little to do with the CIA and almost everything to do with the Belgians, along with the UN.  The CIA certainly had plots against him, but none came to pass.  Can anybody verify this?
-- Yinon 18:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The US certainly thought he was aligned with the Soviets and I have rephrased this bit.  The fate of Lumumba is certainly notable, but not entirely relevant to the subject of the article and I have removed mention of it here.  What do you think? - BanyanTree 18:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like a good solution.  Indeed the US perception is the thing to note here.  Your edits read a bit awkwardly to me, so I reworded them a bit.  I hope its a bit clearer this way. Yinon 20:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems alright.  I changed "whom" to "which" to make sure the reader knows that we're adding the clause to US and not Mobutu.  I admit that my eyes are beginning to glaze over when I read that sentence now so hopefully that is not horrible. Cheers, BanyanTree 20:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You could add to that,  Lumumba seems entirely irrelevant to a war in the 1990's.   The controversy about Lumumba belongs somewhere else.Eregli bob (talk) 07:21, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statements about Lumumba 

message: It has long been a mystery to me,   how a broken down pissant tiny state like Rwanda  could exert so much influence over Zaire/Congo ?   How does that happen ??   Explaining that issue would be a very welcome enhancement to this article.Eregli bob (talk) 07:23, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rwanda 

message: Is this really the "first" Congo War? What about the Congo Crisis? If that wasn't a war, I don't know what is. Brutannica (talk) 04:22, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "First" war

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message: The introduction of this article is unreferenced and is NPOV . I tagged it but it was reverted saying the references are later in the article but this isn't how it works, the references need to to be added to the intro and the NPOV statement needs to be strongly referenced Gnevin (talk) 22:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No. First of all, the intro usually does not need to have references if said information is referenced in the article. Secondly, the intro is not NPOV either. Anyway, to prevent another tag-bombing, I will add references. Applodion (talk) 08:26, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced and NPOV intro  

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message: Hello I wish to bring into question the involvement of Eritrea in this war. I highly doubt that this took place and all references to this points to a Martin Plaut. Martin has been known documented history of levelling baseless accusations against Eritrea. I wish to ask that either this be reviewed or that another source that doesn't reference Martin Plaut either directly or indirectly be used referred to. Ericandude (talk) 16:01, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Plaut is a highly reliable author, and you are making unsubstantiated accusations. Just google Eritrea + Congo war, and you find dozens of other sources stating the same, for example Jonathan Fisher's book "East Africa After Liberation" published by Cambridge University Press. Applodion (talk) 18:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eritrea's Involvement in First Congo War