Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Niemba Ambush took place on November 8, 1960, when an Irish Army platoon in the Congo was ambushed and all of its men killed or forced to flee by Baluba tribesmen, the first time being embroiled in battle against a foreign nation's army since the Irish war of Independence. Ireland had deployed troops as United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) peacekeepers.The notoriety of the attack, and the allegations of mutilation and cannibalism that circulated in the Irish popular press in its aftermath, led to the word \"baluba\" becoming in Ireland for a period a synonym for any \"untrustworthy and barbaric\" individual. This ambush and the Siege of Jadotville in September 1961 marked the only engagements of the peacekeeping mission to involve Irish troops."@en }
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- Niemba_Ambush abstract "The Niemba Ambush took place on November 8, 1960, when an Irish Army platoon in the Congo was ambushed and all of its men killed or forced to flee by Baluba tribesmen, the first time being embroiled in battle against a foreign nation's army since the Irish war of Independence. Ireland had deployed troops as United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) peacekeepers.The notoriety of the attack, and the allegations of mutilation and cannibalism that circulated in the Irish popular press in its aftermath, led to the word \"baluba\" becoming in Ireland for a period a synonym for any \"untrustworthy and barbaric\" individual. This ambush and the Siege of Jadotville in September 1961 marked the only engagements of the peacekeeping mission to involve Irish troops.".