Noel said that there were fears that they would be killed, following the atrocities in the Niemba ambush, in which nine Irish UN peacekeepers were killed by the Baluba tribe in November in 1961.

Luckily for him, he escaped the worst engagements. After Niemba, the probably the second most infamous episode in the history of the Irish peacekeepers in the Congo was the Siege of Jadotville in ...

Col. Murt Buckley. While in duty there, Mick Galvin had many narrow escapes from enemy lines that particular battalion lost twenty six soldiers in battles such as the Niemba ambush, by Baluba ...