Siege of Jadotville
{'<entity_0>': 'Siege of Jadotville', '<entity_1>': '13 September 1961', '<entity_2>': 'State of Katanga', '<entity_3>': '17 September 1961', '<entity_4>': 'Likasi'}
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The <entity_0> was an engagement which occurred in <entity_3> in which a small contingent of Irish troops serving as part of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (Opération des Nations Unies au Congo, ONUC) were besieged in the mining town of <entity_4> (modern-day <entity_4>) by Katangese forces loyal to the secessionist <entity_2>. On Wednesday <entity_1>, United Nations forces in Katanga launched a military offensive, that was code-named Operation Morthor, against mercenary military units serving the <entity_2>, which had seceded from Congo-Léopoldville in July 1960. Declan Power's history, The Siege at <entity_4>: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), was adapted as the film, The <entity_0> (2016).
['conflict', 'siege']