Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld?
Another Long-Standing Theory Centers on Documents Released from Apartheid-Era South Africa in the Late 1990S, Which Suggest That a White Militia Group Called...
Another long-standing theory centers on documents released from apartheid-era South Africa in the late 1990s, which suggest that a white militia group called the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) orchestrated the plane crash that killed Hammarskjold—with the support of both British intelligence and ...
How did Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold die?
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
Who succeeded Dag Hammarskjöld?
He was on his fourth mission to the Republic of the Congo when he was killed with 15 others in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961. U Thant of Myanmar succeeded him as secretary-general. Hammarskjöld was posthumously awarded the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize. READ MORE: U.N.
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