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08/18/2011
Dag Hammarskjöld: evidence suggests UN chief's plane was shot down
Eyewitnesses claim a second aircraft fired at the plane raising questions of British cover-up over the 1961 crash and its causes
by Julian Borger and Georgina Smith in Ndola
The Guardian (U.K.)
New evidence has emerged in one of the most enduring mysteries
of United Nations and African history, suggesting that the plane
carrying the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld was shot down over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) 50 years ago, and the murder was covered up by British colonial authorities.
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