Policing the Unpoliceable - Congo '64 [Remastered]

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  • Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money
    The final part of my Mercenaries in the Congo remaster series, again, I have made a few edits here and there to fix up the cuts and the music, but the most noticeable change (for those of you who even remember the original all the way back in 2017) is that I shifted the focus away from all the executions and more on the ANC and mercenaries running amok.
    Also, now would be a good time to point out once again that these are remasters of my 2017 videos and very few people even remember there was a part 3, the 2019 video I referred to as part 3 is more of a compilation which, if there is popular demand for it, I guess I can remaster that too and then I can finally put the whole Congo Mercs thing to bed.
    Anywho, long winded rant over, look at all that cash those guys "liberated".
    (I uploaded this video 100 miles from my PC so I will not take responsibility for it until I get back)
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  • @dmitrishostakovich9559
    @dmitrishostakovich9559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5280

    2:30 My man liberates a village, breaks into a literal treasure vault chock full of cash, ivory, and antiques; and he takes a toilet.

    • @akkico
      @akkico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +964

      well my man gotta poop y'know

    • @basedkaiser5352
      @basedkaiser5352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +759

      I’m guessing that in times of war good hygiene is a luxury.

    • @lechienchaud3904
      @lechienchaud3904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +478

      The black Congolese police you see were given the coins (whites kept the paper bills) and were allowed a few hours to loot anything else they wanted (that time was up when they were taking the shit back at the end). I think in the originally documentary it was 24 hours and that footage is from literally minutes after that period had lapsed

    • @lechienchaud3904
      @lechienchaud3904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      So if there’s still people who think that this conflict was JUST about “communism” or whatever....it was very much also about white supremacy. Just like Rhodesia, just like South Africa

    • @dennile_7355
      @dennile_7355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      @@Kctubes so it was about white supremacy and those who benefited from it against the rest. Odd choice of words saying “civilization vs primitivity” doe👀

  • @FirstMetalHamster
    @FirstMetalHamster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6177

    This honest brutality is missing in most modern documentaries.

    • @ragman2623
      @ragman2623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@shashanksangaru4827 All i read in this comm is anime and octupus, this guy really write only that?

    • @nscsc
      @nscsc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ragman2623 the volunteers on TH-cam

    • @FirstMetalHamster
      @FirstMetalHamster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@shashanksangaru4827 That sounds very interesting, bookmarked it to watch later.
      Thank you for the tip.

    • @RealAugustusAutumn
      @RealAugustusAutumn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      The truth is also missing from most documentaries. Too many of them wrap the raw footage and such in their own politics or commentary about the world according to themselves.

    • @greg_4201
      @greg_4201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ............it's missing from most conflicts xD

  • @notme5184
    @notme5184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2562

    1:14 The Man, the Myth,
    the Legend and our Hero.
    The Pirate on Cocaine

    • @Pilusajaib
      @Pilusajaib 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      Damn, I miss Mr.Cocaine Pirate

    • @outdooradventureHungary
      @outdooradventureHungary 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      yeah great

    • @xAnalphabetx
      @xAnalphabetx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      lets hope this new remastered video finds a person able to shed light on his identy / story / life, so many seem interested in.

    • @ITriedLmao
      @ITriedLmao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Damn i always thought he was bald

    • @balaklava6420
      @balaklava6420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      I almost didn't recognize him with his shirt on.

  • @mattfrankman
    @mattfrankman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +918

    The lawyers won’t be necessary on this trip, Mr. Zevon.

    • @gsd4me00
      @gsd4me00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Guns and money are in large supply though.

    • @sirmount2636
      @sirmount2636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Pesky human rights courts

    • @jeremyheintz1479
      @jeremyheintz1479 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@gsd4me00 guns yes, cash, not so much

    • @haider5044
      @haider5044 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You think that, until our genius merc' has to go back home.

  • @mammoths_4229
    @mammoths_4229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3456

    Watching the guy pick up the hats and not stack them inside one another hurt.

    • @jaydwy8069
      @jaydwy8069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +300

      God I was thinking that lol these people have no common sense

    • @dennile_7355
      @dennile_7355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Mob mentality kicking in, common sense may not apply when blinded by money

    • @augustdenger8231
      @augustdenger8231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      @@dennile_7355 yeah haha that's totally it

    • @guachingman
      @guachingman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@augustdenger8231 lmao, yeah that has to be it...

    • @spacemarinechaplain9367
      @spacemarinechaplain9367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@dennile_7355 or hats.

  • @RaptorJesus
    @RaptorJesus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    2:36 I can't help but feel the moment he put on that tailcoat he instantly became the CO.

  • @alexschmidt443
    @alexschmidt443 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3941

    Regular Armies: "No looting! It beneath our honor."
    Mercanaries:
    "If you can bring it back home, it's yours!"

  • @sponge540
    @sponge540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +830

    Small recap: Essentially, after the siege from the Mercs, the city was liberated.
    And eventually, Mercs arent really armies, they dont have any MP's. So they set up an 24hr(?) martial law-ish thing which permitted looting.

    • @windmill563
      @windmill563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      So basically they sacked a city?

    • @sponge540
      @sponge540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      @@windmill563 Not the mercenaries, but yes. Everyone, including the civilians ransacked the place.

    • @blackshirtsocialist1457
      @blackshirtsocialist1457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@windmill563 basically all of citizen and Mercenary is allowed to looting the city in 24 hour after that they Will not allowed to looting

    • @LesangdesdieuX
      @LesangdesdieuX ปีที่แล้ว +32

      "Hey mercs we need you to help us around in africa"
      " Hm'kay what's in it for us ?"
      "I mean.. You'll get beer and loot.."
      "Alrighty then we'll do it !"
      :start blasting music:

    • @kovona
      @kovona ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Looting has always been a common and even expected activity in conventional war. The ancient Greeks and Romans formalized and regulated it into systematic operation; it wasn't a free -for-all where every soldier grabbed what he can. Instead, they canvassed a captured city, piled up everything of value found, and divided the loot based on rank or merit.
      The militaristic Romans made so much off of looting that franchised citizens in the Republic regularly voted to go to war simply for the sake of pillaging their neighbors to enrich themselves.

  • @HansWurst1569
    @HansWurst1569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +778

    If I tell the dude at 2:48 what the meaning of 'stacking' is his mind will be blown

    • @Guydebute
      @Guydebute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      Something something Bell curve

    • @sirholycow
      @sirholycow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@Guydebute Very subtle but effective way of making your point.

    • @la-li-lu-le-lo9444
      @la-li-lu-le-lo9444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @The Last Carolingian in Kartvelia why is it that nobody seems to know nowadays? Is it guilt?

    • @princejaxisblack8789
      @princejaxisblack8789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Guydebute ah yes, because one guy who couldn't stack hats proves the validity of the bell curve

    • @Guydebute
      @Guydebute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@princejaxisblack8789 Nah I'm kidding, obviously Africa is super ahead in terms of development and their intellect is superior.
      Ever heard of Zimbabwe?

  • @BlahDBlahDBlah
    @BlahDBlahDBlah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1551

    2:37 Even while surrounded by Philistines, style never goes out of fashion.

    • @thetoasterinyourbathtub1086
      @thetoasterinyourbathtub1086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +284

      The drip lord.

    • @SlayerRiley
      @SlayerRiley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@thetoasterinyourbathtub1086 Thanks, had a good laugh :)

    • @diligentsun1154
      @diligentsun1154 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      should have used that 'money' to buy information, tools, weapons and safe passage

    • @pi3316
      @pi3316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@TheTyrial86 gotta get that drip bro

    • @cannedbread3125
      @cannedbread3125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Ben-ek1fz that’s not odd for nice clothes. Buying expensive clothes is an investment but you’ll actually save money in the long run. Like the guy in LA noire says - buy two suits and get em pressed. They’ll last you your entire life

  • @azj_
    @azj_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1387

    This remastered footage clip it's more better quality footage that I ever seeing

    • @azj_
      @azj_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @8A Benaiah Dandel oh I see

    • @riccardopattarin
      @riccardopattarin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@azj_ i think it is from the documentary Africa Addio (1966)

    • @azj_
      @azj_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@riccardopattarin oh okay thank you for your information

    • @azj_
      @azj_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Magor Gaming thank you

    • @schwammimkopf
      @schwammimkopf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’ Never think this is remastered by an documentary Film .😳
      I think more that was made with a mini hd camera hide in an old 8mm Film case 🤔
      The more i think about it is possible an Time Traveler like such rich Tourist who used the cam.😳

  • @makukawakami
    @makukawakami ปีที่แล้ว +77

    2:35 peak jungle loadout. cross-draw pistol holster, knife, camo pants, rifle, slouch hat and a damn petticoat.

    • @chizorama
      @chizorama 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Pimp while you rip, hellz yeah...

    • @CTM-lz4jj
      @CTM-lz4jj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Suddenly he became the CO

    • @makukawakami
      @makukawakami 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CTM-lz4jj John Wick now has competition to the title of Dapper Gunslinger

    • @devinthierault
      @devinthierault 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's me in me slouch hat and whatever the hell I found lying round

    • @Literallyryangosling777
      @Literallyryangosling777 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Is preston garvey

  • @alpha4979
    @alpha4979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +829

    The remaster of the remaster

    • @MajorSamm
      @MajorSamm  3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      The remaster of the original that was deleted when I was still at 100 subs

    • @urmothwr
      @urmothwr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Remaster of the mastered

    • @d.plaguethedocter8542
      @d.plaguethedocter8542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Remastering the unremasterable.

    • @marcustulliuscicero9140
      @marcustulliuscicero9140 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MajorSamm original is still on Bit chute btw

  • @olawiaczek1
    @olawiaczek1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +767

    It's rare to see a trilogy that is as good as this.

    • @BoopSnoot
      @BoopSnoot 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We should play a game with 5 second clips of this: "Congo or Detroit" where you have to guess where it was filmed.

  • @bandid4510
    @bandid4510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    We've all talked about the parrot in the other video, but how about the badass mf owl at 0:26 chillin on the shoulder of the guy with the black beret.

    • @arnantphongsatha7906
      @arnantphongsatha7906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Holy shit i must have watched this video a couple of dozen times and just noticed it. Dude looks like something out of an rpg.

    • @Willbkool
      @Willbkool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@arnantphongsatha7906 I've probably seen it close to 100 times and never saw that. lol
      I even bought the English version of the documentary called 'Africa: Blood and Guts' and never noticed it.

    • @ashtralplane777
      @ashtralplane777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sick af

    • @iwatchyoutubealot
      @iwatchyoutubealot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Blessed by Athena.

    • @nicholaspatton5590
      @nicholaspatton5590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks! That’s kickass

  • @johnnumber1
    @johnnumber1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1371

    Hopefully this won’t be deleted off of TH-cam for “reasons”.

    • @GlidingZephyr
      @GlidingZephyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      TH-cam will cancel anything for "reasons." This channel shouldn't be one of them...these footage clips are masterpieces.

    • @GlidingZephyr
      @GlidingZephyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kiwimerchant121 Excellent musical score as always, too.

    • @excitableboy7031
      @excitableboy7031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Iirc the previous one got deleted because it showed some dudes getting clocked in the head, an execution. The bare ass man made it in i'm glad (?) to see

    • @brock01000
      @brock01000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GlidingZephyr they have deleted a few in the past I think

    • @generaljeneral7503
      @generaljeneral7503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I have a backup in this quality in case it ever does. Did it myself 2 days before Samm announced that he was remaking the Congo Series lol

  • @juststuff8742
    @juststuff8742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +873

    The first clip, with the guy getting a FN FAL pointed in his face, really strikes me as showing the absolute fear and terror in the Congo in 1964

    • @juststuff8742
      @juststuff8742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @Anh Quốc Nguyễn maybe, it's a tough situation to imagine yourself in

    • @LiteralCrimeRave
      @LiteralCrimeRave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't think they used commonwealth Inch pattern FALS in the Congo

    • @spacemarinechaplain9367
      @spacemarinechaplain9367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@LiteralCrimeRave yeah it’s more likely an actual FN-Fal.

    • @juststuff8742
      @juststuff8742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LiteralCrimeRave yeah, I'm British so that's the gun I know, but as they were likely Belgian it almost definitely wasn't

    • @LiteralCrimeRave
      @LiteralCrimeRave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@juststuff8742 I figured. Love the charging habdle on commonwealth guns. Considering buying a classic style FAL and buying a special charging handle made by DS Arms because of how much I love it

  • @bitcoinzoomer9994
    @bitcoinzoomer9994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    2:47 Watching this dude be unable to just stack the hats and carry them has my sides in orbit

    • @snowflakecuntreeman3947
      @snowflakecuntreeman3947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Have you ever stacked those hats before?

    • @nutsackmania
      @nutsackmania ปีที่แล้ว

      lol snowflake cuntreeman

    • @dasuta5047
      @dasuta5047 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ​@@snowflakecuntreeman3947no but i have stacked fucking hats before. Laws of physics don't suddenly change.

    • @larkas1718
      @larkas1718 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dasuta5047 for thicker hats trying to shove them inside one another will damage the sides and is just hard to do in general

    • @constantinethecataphract5949
      @constantinethecataphract5949 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ofcourse its the black one too

  • @ioannisschoinopoulos1359
    @ioannisschoinopoulos1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +841

    The three necessary things for creating and maintaining life: Lawyers, Guns and Money

    • @mrman3176
      @mrman3176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      use gun to shoot worthless lawyer and keep the money

    • @helbent4
      @helbent4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The holy trinity!

    • @SpartacusColo
      @SpartacusColo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of the greatest songs.

    • @1954cs
      @1954cs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@SpartacusColo But, considering the circumstances "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" might have been more appropriate.

    • @Demons972
      @Demons972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trump aproves this message.

  • @freelancepear87kakkoka11
    @freelancepear87kakkoka11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +363

    it's hard to think that this image is so old that many of these men had fought in the second world war (or at least lived through it), just goes to show how the soldiers don't just disappear from the face of the earth when the war is over.

    • @hieug.rection1920
      @hieug.rection1920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      After Iraq died down I left the Marines. Went back because I didn’t find civilian life to my taste and went to Afghanistan. Remembered why I left the Marines in the first place and left again after my years were up. Took up an offer from an Afghan warlord’s security forces I’d met on my last tour for a job with their company. That put me in South Africa. Sent me up to Sudan and Libya and wound up in Syria for a bit. Back down to the Congo and some light work in Estwatini. I’ve got a little nest egg and now am running some private work in the states since I’m getting a little long in the tooth. There’s a shit-ton of guys like me running around the “private contracting” circuits.
      Good money to be made. Most of it outside of the state department contracts.

    • @Skullgar
      @Skullgar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@hieug.rection1920 "Most of it outside of the state department contracts." Good thing too. They're just likely to throw you in the fire as not.

    • @hieug.rection1920
      @hieug.rection1920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@Skullgar absolutely they will. For only $70k a year last time I heard. No dice. It used to be closer to $200k. The warlords pay better. Much better if you’ve got a little clout and a recommendation.

    • @cratoss.4772
      @cratoss.4772 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@hieug.rection1920 Damn sounds like a really exciting life.

    • @Berserker3624
      @Berserker3624 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@hieug.rection1920any tips to try and get into that life? Anything that can make me look better to be approached or is there a way for me to approach them?

  • @expiredwater9019
    @expiredwater9019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    Ah, time to liberate some beers....

    • @doughesson
      @doughesson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's always beer thirty somewhere.

  • @venezuelanomarico
    @venezuelanomarico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    1:14 thanks Pirate one eye cocaine man for your adventures. Sweet dreams bassed man.

  • @blonded0532
    @blonded0532 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I cannot POSSIBLY think of a more fitting track to go along with this video. Absolutely superb.

    • @britishaviator5942
      @britishaviator5942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The only one that could possibly compete is Jungle Work.

    • @slowturtle6745
      @slowturtle6745 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@britishaviator5942 I was actually expecting that to be the soundtrack for this video...not going to lie I was a little disappointed.

  • @arsenicflask
    @arsenicflask 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    2:37 "Another settlement needs your help, I'll mark it on your map."

  • @Victor-sh4nc
    @Victor-sh4nc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Some of these "more light" scenes made me smile, even in such dark times... thanks mate!

    • @rossouwmalherbe757
      @rossouwmalherbe757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Rodesians never die!From a Boer!

    • @neodutch
      @neodutch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@rossouwmalherbe757 Make Rhodesia Great Again.

    • @OperatorMax1993
      @OperatorMax1993 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@alenparker3056 rebuild the "bread basket of Africa"!

  • @universal1014
    @universal1014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    I cringed at 3:06 watching him break that rifle rip Belgian Mauser you will be missed

    • @Cairo40000
      @Cairo40000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It was probably too jammed to be used again but still it hurts

    • @arifahmedkhan9999
      @arifahmedkhan9999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do you mean you cringed?

    • @samwecerinvictus
      @samwecerinvictus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Arig Ahmed Khan
      It’s a valuable firearm and it was destroyed, obviously.

    • @samwecerinvictus
      @samwecerinvictus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@arifahmedkhan9999
      Are you usually this unintelligent?

    • @magicianslucky602
      @magicianslucky602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@samwecerinvictus its not unintelligence its not having English as your main language

  • @dylans3977
    @dylans3977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    2:35 absolutely fitted

  • @alexandersmall7380
    @alexandersmall7380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Guard: What do you have in those chests?
    Merc: Uhhhh, personal effects?
    Guard: Yours or someone else’s?

  • @Lappmogel
    @Lappmogel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    2:48 they should have keep filming that guy for another hour or so, i want to know more about his story.

    • @J0hnHenrySNEEDen
      @J0hnHenrySNEEDen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wish we knew His name 02:36

    • @elijahrobinson2362
      @elijahrobinson2362 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He went on to create Tetris after he FINALLY learned to stack those pith helmets inside one another.

    • @greg_4201
      @greg_4201 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't

    • @greg_4201
      @greg_4201 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@elijahrobinson2362🤣🤣🤣

  • @WaffleBomber
    @WaffleBomber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    3:10 This part was intense.

    • @ShinigamiInuyasha777
      @ShinigamiInuyasha777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      "We're not only going to shoot you. If you cause trouble we will punch your stomach!"

    • @andrei2868
      @andrei2868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      You need to see the full documentary, to understand how truly insane it is.

    • @AndrewJ9673
      @AndrewJ9673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@andrei2868 whats the documentary called

    • @JUNIORK1974
      @JUNIORK1974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@AndrewJ9673 it's an Italian documentary from 1966 called Africa Addio. All kinds of crazy shit in that one.

    • @Exgrmbl
      @Exgrmbl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      What's impressive is that he manages to do that without accidentally pulling the trigger.

  • @ShinigamiInuyasha777
    @ShinigamiInuyasha777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    "Due to the lack of men required to use for police actions. We'd been forced to hire mercenaries to act as police man. Harassment to civilians, corruption and brutality was a plus in the deal"

    • @escape2204
      @escape2204 ปีที่แล้ว

      where’s that from?

    • @ShinigamiInuyasha777
      @ShinigamiInuyasha777 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@escape2204 I just imagine how ill explain the locals all this

    • @publiusventidiusbassus1232
      @publiusventidiusbassus1232 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@ShinigamiInuyasha777 As far as I understand, the mercs were actually the best behaved faction in that mess.

    • @LesangdesdieuX
      @LesangdesdieuX ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@publiusventidiusbassus1232 And that says a lot

    • @The_OneManCrowd
      @The_OneManCrowd ปีที่แล้ว

      1000% incorrect. Do some research about the murderous scum the mercs executed that day. It was beautiful and they got everything they desreved.

  • @aryadeepghosh9782
    @aryadeepghosh9782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    My grandfather was in the Indian Army and he was sent in Zaire in 1964 due to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. The time was during the Katanga insurgency.

    • @urjitsinhrathod5345
      @urjitsinhrathod5345 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please share a bit more, also please don’t mention any sensitive information (I’m not saying child friendly/nsfw thing, I meant anything which is not supposed to be shared).

    • @Patriciadiko
      @Patriciadiko 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      One of my Irish friends had an uncle who was among the 100 or so Irish Army soldiers stationed at Jadotville during the same UN Mission.

    • @kingkoi6542
      @kingkoi6542 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now Katanga has been brought to the rest of the world...

  • @chesterstevens8870
    @chesterstevens8870 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Answer a shady ad in a magazine, fly off to the jungle, three months of nonstop heart-pounding excitement, come home with six figures. What a fucking time it was.

  • @chrisbinckes2732
    @chrisbinckes2732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    my fathers friends escaped the stanleyville massacre a family of five drove overland in a bedford truck down through northern and southern rhodesia and stayed with us in natal, the mother gisele used to tell me stories that i couldnt get to sleep at night after... thanks for this upload

    • @pabloboy6397
      @pabloboy6397 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A fascinating story. Thanks for sharing this memory with us. Did she (the mother, Gislèle, who I assume was Belgian and likely spoke French, predominantly, her being in the Congo and all) speak English to you? Or did she also happen to speak Flemish, which is a Dutch dialect, and by extension, very similar to Afrikaans? I'm genuinely interested, as this period of geo-political history has always fascinated me.

    • @michaelnuttall5896
      @michaelnuttall5896 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@pabloboy6397 Not much of that side of history is allowed to even be published or stored on book shelfs in South Africa and absolutely not in the rest of black Africa. One of the few or perhaps last vetiges of history of the European people in Africa is kept inside the Voortrekker Monument.
      Won't shock me at this point if Chris, myself and many other White South Africans are racing our bukkies back up the same way Gisele came down, either in a 4x4 or horse back at this point.

    • @justforthis3208
      @justforthis3208 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What can you tell us that you remember?

    • @justforthis3208
      @justforthis3208 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@pabloboy6397really interesting question

    • @vorynrosethorn903
      @vorynrosethorn903 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Any way to share and spread the knowledge, I had family killed in both SA and Kenya, the more the history is remembered the better as it is increasingly becoming a European reality as well.

  • @3ipolarBear
    @3ipolarBear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    2:35 "Another settlement needs our help"

  • @eagleone5456
    @eagleone5456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    Dey took evryting..
    Even da toilet!

    • @thishonestgrifter
      @thishonestgrifter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Can’t crap in Detroit!

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      oh ma toilet

    • @UniqueMappingSequence
      @UniqueMappingSequence 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      cant shit in boende

  • @lepiss9683
    @lepiss9683 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Seeing older footage in this good of color is my favorite thing ever

  • @KerazyJoe
    @KerazyJoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Thank you for completing the series. Based on watching the original footage before your edits. you did an incredible job that the original directors would surely be proud of the the emotion you pull from your audience. Well done bruv

    • @KerazyJoe
      @KerazyJoe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gocagola2541 Africa Addio

  • @Trav_Can
    @Trav_Can 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    2:44 I love the guy trying to carry as many hats as he can. We've all been there. Drop two to pick up one.

  • @gastonbell108
    @gastonbell108 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    1:36 Part of the unspoken gag of this scene is that the money (Congolese franc notes) is near worthless in 1964 thanks to the rampant inflation caused by the war. That whole big pile of moldy paper francs they looted out of that town is probably worth $50 in modern USD, and that's if you could find anybody willing to accept it. That's why they're jokingly sorting it all out and then the merc ostentatiously lights his cigarette with a fat wad of it. They're there for the loot, true, but mostly for the adventure.
    Edit: in a new twist, I was amused to see this reference in Jagged Alliance 3, in which your mercs find burlap sacks full of Grand Chien francs, each which is worth roughly $5. 😆

  • @66secularist
    @66secularist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Those mercenaries somehow just look so cool, whatever the pose and whatever they do.

  • @billmattson2001
    @billmattson2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Not much reading on 5 commando and the Simba Rebellion in 64 and 65 but Congo Mercenary by Col. Mad Mike Hoare and Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith are both good reads. Road to Kalamata by Hoare is another good one but it’s about the secession of The Katanga Provence when Belgium was handing over the Congo to the Congolese in 1960. Good Netflix movie is the Siege of Jadotville. It’s about an Irish unit deployed on a peacekeeping mission for the UN and attacked by a couple thousand katangese soldiers and white Mercenaries. Other than that hard to find much on this interesting time in history. Time magazine had several articles if you can find them and want to pay the money.

    • @WarmeMilch
      @WarmeMilch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank u

    • @billmattson2001
      @billmattson2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@WarmeMilch you are welcome. I don’t know why but I’ve always found the Congo crisis and the Balkan wars when Yugoslavia was falling apart very interesting. I read every article I can find on both and any documentaries. BBC had a good documentary mid to late nineties on the Balkan wars called The Death of Yugoslavia. Lots of decent footage and goes in depth on how that whole shit show unraveled.

    • @kebabtank
      @kebabtank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@billmattson2001 Yes, The Death of Yugoslavia was a fascinating documentary. In fact it was first class and I watched it all the way through in one sitting. What I realise now, is that most of the protagonists are dead, which makes it all the more significant.

    • @12vscience
      @12vscience 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here is a documentary, perhaps a bit biased towards the Katangese and freedom minded people, about the crisis:
      th-cam.com/video/rvgBvwfW5Dw/w-d-xo.html
      And here is a speech about southern Africa:
      th-cam.com/video/J2PROb8FaCs/w-d-xo.html

    • @oddshot60
      @oddshot60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fly on Wild Geese!

  • @PrestonFrankel
    @PrestonFrankel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Love the song, love the footage, love the subject. God I love this series.

  • @jaytea4093
    @jaytea4093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Literally one second into the video I recognized the song. Warren Zevon's music just pairs perfectly with these kinds of videos.

    • @stevel6939
      @stevel6939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Jungle work" would have worked well too. I used to sing it over and over in my head on a particularly long 8 day mission in Nicaragua.

    • @phuquoc3012
      @phuquoc3012 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its just like bean and carrots

    • @justforthis3208
      @justforthis3208 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@stevel6939oddly specific I daren't ask anymore but really want to.

  • @raidenthekat2444
    @raidenthekat2444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    These hit hard with me.
    A documentary gives you the details and often does a wonderful job, but the mix of the music, and brutal reality of the shots does more to make me remember these situations and what people have gone thorugh.

  • @notme5184
    @notme5184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    2:30 Bruh he got a toilet while everyone else stole all the good stuff and beer.

    • @dazerrazer3018
      @dazerrazer3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      toilets were pretty rare and mostly only for the rich back in the 60s in africa.

    • @Tonyx.yt.
      @Tonyx.yt. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dazerrazer3018 yes but is totaly useless if removed from water and waste pipes...

    • @dazerrazer3018
      @dazerrazer3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Tonyx.yt. african logic dont ask me lmao

    • @Tonyx.yt.
      @Tonyx.yt. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dazerrazer3018 yeah that's the whole point

    • @ulysses1353
      @ulysses1353 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tonyx.yt. i think its more about the ceramic rather than the plumbing

  • @BigBalls69.
    @BigBalls69. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I will enjoy this footage

  • @105htetzarne2
    @105htetzarne2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:35 You look splendid as ever today, m'lord!

  • @ReaperPLUR
    @ReaperPLUR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The juxtaposition of this high quality video and knowing its of footage in 64, makes this look like clips from a movie

  • @megafan666hybrid
    @megafan666hybrid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Im glad this has returned after being so rudely youtubed away from my playlists. Your work is so simple yet it helps create interest in the topic at hand for me at least

  • @toddberkely6791
    @toddberkely6791 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    a crazy unforgettable movie, from a crazy but forgotten time.

  • @dufus7396
    @dufus7396 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Colonial powers shouldve stood firm ...every single one of those countries is a hell hole now

  • @theelodgeovkeku
    @theelodgeovkeku 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    love how this is literally the third result for "lawyers, guns & money"
    rest in power Mad Mike ✊🏿

  • @cvandy2252
    @cvandy2252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Awesome use of one of the greatest songs by one of the most underrated musicians of all time!

  • @MyTummyREALLYhurts
    @MyTummyREALLYhurts 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    People hate on the soldiers of fortune because they're jealous that the normal armies won't treat them what they're worth

  • @sumvs5992
    @sumvs5992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That thumbnail is a work of art, even if it was just a screenshot with text overlayed

  • @aidanpysher2764
    @aidanpysher2764 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2:35 that drip is UNMATCHED

  • @bigboi7817
    @bigboi7817 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Feel bad for the guy who didnt figure out how to stack the hats

  • @SandrasSpicySpanishSalami
    @SandrasSpicySpanishSalami ปีที่แล้ว +27

    >TFW you'll never be an allied WWII combat Vet turned Merc looting your way through a forgotten part of the dark continent alongside Wehrmacht Vets against poorly trained Guerrillas armed by the reds.

  • @aydon1276
    @aydon1276 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Glad that the original is still out there, but this version can still be enjoyed on TH-cam.

    • @aydon1276
      @aydon1276 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nevermind, I can’t find it anymore

    • @laurencewainwright
      @laurencewainwright ปีที่แล้ว

      Is this from a documentary? If so, what is it called?

    • @aydon1276
      @aydon1276 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@laurencewainwright Africa Addio, you can find it here on youtube

  • @kambingsaja5668
    @kambingsaja5668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:35 what a gentleman!

  • @neroclaudius7284
    @neroclaudius7284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I got permanent hearing damage by having the volume a bit too high as I listened to this for a solid 5 hours. Worth it.

    • @Demons972
      @Demons972 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      SEND LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY!
      HELL YEAH!

  • @bobbymay8618
    @bobbymay8618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    should have shown the leader getting slotted by the 1911 man

    • @JerryKanMan
      @JerryKanMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I missed that scene!

    • @geoffbell166
      @geoffbell166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nah they would bann it.

    • @litoflores4800
      @litoflores4800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@geoffbell166 yeah this video will get deleted by youtube thats what happened old one where it show people being murdered

    • @tex8564
      @tex8564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      At the very end?

    • @tex8564
      @tex8564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @KGE Studios ah, my bad, thought the clip of the guy firing the 1911 was it as I think it was on the original The Guns For Hire vid? Someone said it was, guess I really need to watch the full documentary

  • @BountyHuyanty3264
    @BountyHuyanty3264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:35 What a man of style.

  • @michaelpresley1337
    @michaelpresley1337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Every one of your congo videos is brilliant.. keep up the great content.

  • @willgroover2895
    @willgroover2895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Always love some Warren Zevon!

  • @GustavoFV2024
    @GustavoFV2024 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not a phone in sight, just wonderful people living in the moment 💀

  • @justforthis3208
    @justforthis3208 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is the side of TH-cam I absolutely love. These sorts of videos and the comment sections. There's some quite interesting and maybe even important oral history recorded in these comment sections.

    • @dungeonmaster3270
      @dungeonmaster3270 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Вы правы

    • @user-ze8yy8jg1f
      @user-ze8yy8jg1f 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Congo has dozens of stories
      I’m from Ireland I have family who fought for the UN in the Congo
      It was one of the worst wars just covered up and called a crisis
      Irish un troops went crazy when they reached towns they threw Grenades into a school with some pakistan UN soldiers. Even a few Irish were ambushed a cut up by the tribes

    • @vorynrosethorn903
      @vorynrosethorn903 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A lot already will have been lost to the algorithm, and more will follow.

  • @bogdan3444
    @bogdan3444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    1:49 guy lighting his cigarette with money on fire. Nice. Very nice

  • @yooHooLagger
    @yooHooLagger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment

  • @Kocayine
    @Kocayine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've ripped the blu-ray with the documentary and uploaded it in the best quality I could get out of it, if anyone wants to watch it.

    • @Makaveli2000
      @Makaveli2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      damn didn't expect you to be here

  • @zcoppleman7230
    @zcoppleman7230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The guy wearing the tail coat and slouch hat was my favorite.

  • @Stromblad2211
    @Stromblad2211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:36 dude looks fresh AF

  • @giovannicervantes2053
    @giovannicervantes2053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know Sam I thank you a lot because you set me on the path of Warren Zevon and I will never forget it

  • @lautarocardozo5214
    @lautarocardozo5214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:36 now i know from where kojima got the idea of skullface in mgsv lol

  • @MDR-hn2yz
    @MDR-hn2yz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Send Lawyers, Guns & and Money; the shit has hit the fan.” - Warren Zevon

  • @celticfox
    @celticfox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've seen the Congo footage from you now maybe three or four times and it's always fantastic.

  • @signorpippistrello
    @signorpippistrello 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Little has changed since then….. Great video, thx!

  • @orkun171
    @orkun171 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    mercs doing what mercs done since time immemorial

  • @francisdietz5197
    @francisdietz5197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    1:40 isn’t it crazy that they are talking about the same Queen that we still have today?

    • @misdangered4326
      @misdangered4326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They saved her, and they get no credit for it... 🙁

    • @cortex8239
      @cortex8239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@misdangered4326 Well the mistake was helping any British person

    • @totallymaortal1211
      @totallymaortal1211 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cortex8239 any "royal" person* British are just people like everyone else.

    • @heybabycometobutthead
      @heybabycometobutthead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@misdangered4326 The British in Rhodesia took in many refugees from here, the Americans were cheering on white slaughter.

    • @tiznaeshnishto2584
      @tiznaeshnishto2584 ปีที่แล้ว

      uhhhh yeah abt that

  • @z1ll4jr53
    @z1ll4jr53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It just never and cannot get old.

  • @MrSporkster
    @MrSporkster ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You can take the Ooga Booga out of Bungo-Bungo Land, but you can't take Bungo-Bungo Land out of the Ooga Booga.

    • @rudert56
      @rudert56 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Should have picked our own cotton.

  • @Overlord99762
    @Overlord99762 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2:35 True drip

  • @kennedytheretard975
    @kennedytheretard975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    To keep law and order on the most lawless and disorderly places of the world
    a true challenge

    • @jameskennedy721
      @jameskennedy721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This part of the world was taken over and run by violence . Of course the population wanted the foreigners driven out , and of course they used violence to pursue that aim .

    • @suclox12yearsago56
      @suclox12yearsago56 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Found you Kennedy

  • @carloshannon8346
    @carloshannon8346 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For everyone talking about the various clips, watch the whole documentary these clips are taken from. Africa Adio it's called. British, Irish, French, Belgians all living in the moment. Europeans always stop hating each other when there is war to be fought and loot to be had

  • @kochanekwiary2470
    @kochanekwiary2470 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:36 bro is a customizable character

  • @kyloben3679
    @kyloben3679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great song and a fantastic use for it! Beautiful and crisp footage! Well done!

  • @yewmacham579
    @yewmacham579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    NEW MAJORSAMM POST BABY WOOOOOOOOO

  • @TheLocomotionFan
    @TheLocomotionFan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THank you,i waited fpor this reupload for a long time.

  • @arturocavendish6859
    @arturocavendish6859 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kid named Lawyers, Kid named Guns, kid named Money:

  • @knightfortheorderofthetea766
    @knightfortheorderofthetea766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Legit the guy with the toilet has the most valuable thing in the congo

  • @rosecroix77
    @rosecroix77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    3:18 I think 1911 man should be Sgt Donald Grant, Mad Mike's personal bodyguard

  • @beyondbackwater4933
    @beyondbackwater4933 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Using burning cash to light your cigarette is pretty badass

  • @arcwiz
    @arcwiz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Simple man...
    Hear Warren Zevon
    I smash that like button

  • @Unfortunaate
    @Unfortunaate ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I listened to a book called "congo mercenary" by Mike Hoare, the guy in charge of most of the white mercs in congo back then, he describe his mens as righteous soldiers of fortune, and even says pillaging wasn't allowed, yet this video says otherwise. Truly a chance that some peoples filmed those footage, and that some published it, because it give some insight on what was realy going on there.

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's hard to tell who was who though.

    • @aetius7139
      @aetius7139 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean if hes take part in it. Wouldnt he try to bent the truth to make himself look like a hero?. It aint exactly new, its just all the same. In war nothing is sacred, no one is truly innocent. To quote cicero "inter arma enim silent leges" (in war, law is silent).

    • @JohnBrownsBody
      @JohnBrownsBody ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@aetius7139 Yeah def was trying to give himself a heroic shine for the public - I’m sure all manner of nasty business was left unmentioned by Hoare.

    • @MnemonicHack
      @MnemonicHack ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnBrownsBody When one is in a nasty situation, as is any war, nasty things happen. Things that few want to hear about, and fewer want to talk about, except for those who benefit from pointing the finger. There is no justice in war, except the justice that comes from who's left.

    • @JohnBrownsBody
      @JohnBrownsBody ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MnemonicHack Chalking it up to "war is hell" is pretty damned weak too. Hoare and his mercenary army were not draftees sent to defend king and country. They came to the war of their own volition and stayed because it was fun and profitable.

  • @RackwitzG
    @RackwitzG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    02:46 Someone tell that man, that if you stack the hats, you can carry them all!

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the quality of this footage is better then most videos on the internet today

  • @Toxodos
    @Toxodos 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    took me a long time to figure out if this was real footage, great job on remastering/editing, it's literally like out of a movie

  • @joaoprzygocki1865
    @joaoprzygocki1865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Imagine being a belgian mercenary in this hell, it must have been glorious

    • @oskareriksson2202
      @oskareriksson2202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Belgians was in the 6th commando of Bob Denard, composed mostly by Latins, French, Belgians, italians, Greeks, Portuguese, and so on, while this is the 5th commando of Mike O, composed by Anglo Saxons, trough there was some Latin there too (even officers, like major tullio moneta but at the time I donno if had yet joined the commando, maybe nextly in Congo he joined I don't remember)

    • @joaoprzygocki1865
      @joaoprzygocki1865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@oskareriksson2202 Very interesting, I say this based on the documentary "Africa addio", which for some time follows Belgian mercenaries in Congo. Being Brazilian, I'm quite surprised that Portuguese mercenaries were also involved.

    • @JMARCO-ty2ow
      @JMARCO-ty2ow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joaoprzygocki1865 search about the "fiéis catangueses". Some former Katanga State soldiers also fought for Portugal during the Ultramar War

  • @Chrisrk11
    @Chrisrk11 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    To the guy that stole the long tail coat and the bottle of liquor cheers to you sir 🍻