Did you know that there is a current UN inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld? The inquiry is examining new evidence he was assassinated by the CIA shortly before announcing decolonisation for West Papua. #freewestpapua 1/5
The day after his death was announced, former American president Harry Truman said that Hammarskjöld “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him”. arkiv.tidningengloba... 2/5
? REPORTAGE: Although then-UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s fatal plane crash occurred in the heart of Africa, amidst a bloody conflict in the newly independent republic of Congo—the motives behind a potential sabotage of the DC-6 aircraft, which resulted in 16 people’s death, might be found elsewhere. Where Southeast Asia ends, and Oceania begins.