Kindu atrocity

The Kindu Massacre, or Kindu Atrocity, took place on the 11th or 12 November 1961 in Kindu Port-Émpain, in the Congo-Léopoldville (the former Belgian Congo). Thirteen Italian airmen—members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo, sent to pacify the country ravaged by civil war— were murdered by locals and then eaten by cannibal savages.

The Italian aviators manned two C-119s, twin-engined transport aircraft known as Flying Boxcars, of the 46ª Aerobrigata based at Pisa Airfield.

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