Report of the Hammarskjöld Commission

Publisher:
Hammarskjöld Inquiry Trust
Publication Date:
9 September 2013
Tags:
Africa, Congo-Kinshasa, Zambia, Legal and Judicial Affairs, International Organizations and Africa

The full report of a privately-convened commission of inquiry into the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a plane crash on the night of 17-18 September 1961, in the course of a UN mission to try to bring peace to the Congo. The commission recommends that the UN "would be justified in reopening its 1961-2 inquiry for the initial purpose of confirming or refuting, from intercept records, the evidence indicating that the descent of the Secretary-General's plane was brought about by some form of attack or threat."

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