Stanleyville MutiniesDR Congo · 1966–1967“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Mobutu's new Congo still carried the old war's loose cartridges: Katangese gendarmes folded unloved into the army, and white mercenaries with contracts ending. At Stanleyville in 1966, and again in 1967 under Schramme the Belgian planter-colonel, they mutinied and held the city.