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White Legion (Zaire)
The White Legion were a group of mercenaries in the First Congo War (24 October 1996 – 16 May 1997) employed on the side of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. This group of about 200 men, mostly from Eastern Europe, was given the task of defending the city of Kisangani and training Zairian troops. This effort was largely unsuccessful and in mid-March 1997 the mercenaries left the country.
==Lead-up==
In late 1996, Eluki Monga Aundu, the Army Chief of Staff of the Zairean Armed Forces, stated to Prime Minister Léon Kengo that launching a counter-offensive against the invading forces in the Kivu Provinces would be impossible without the use of mercenaries. Aundu asked Kengo to set up a plan to hire mercenaries, which was also approved by President Mobutu Sese Seko. From that point on the use of mercenaries was allowed.〔Musah, 127〕 Mobutu apparently sought the help of Executive Outcomes, a private military company which had already worked in both the Angolan and Sierra Leone Civil Wars. He however refused their offer after deeming the price too high. He then, amongst others, chose soldiers that until recenty had been serving in the Bosnian Serb Army, which had been defeated in 1995.〔Fitzsimmons, 233〕
There were four groups of mercenaries in Zaire in late 1996. There was a group of around twenty to thirty West-Europeans, with the majority being French under the lead of the Belgian former colonel Christian Tavernier. Another group consisted of the Bosnian Serbs, which Khareen Pech estimates to be eighty to a hundred men. There was also a small number of Ukrainian pilots. A last group consisted of South African security advisors and pilots.〔Musah, 134〕
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