Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary general of the United Nations, died in a plane crash shortly after midnight on September 18 1961. The aircraft was approaching Ndola, a mining town in then Northern Rhodesia . Hammarskjöld had arranged a meeting with Moïse Tshombe, leader of the secessionist Katanga province, to find a solution to the conflict in the Congo.
Under the leadership of Lord Lea of Crondall, a British trade unionist and Labour politician, a few individuals established the Hammarskjöld Inquiry Trust. It initiated a Hammarskjöld Commission, tasked with a new inquiry. This was conducted pro bono by four jurists from The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
He identified “the continued non-disclosure of potentially relevant new information in the intelligence, security and defence archives of UN member states” as “the biggest barrier to understanding the full truth”. He suggested that a continued investigation shifts the burden of proof to the member states to “have conducted a full review of records and archives in their custody or possession, including those that remain classified”.
In December a Swedish draft resolution was adopted with a record number of 128 co-sponsoring countries , further extending Othman’s mandate. The website of the Hammarskjöld Inquiry of the Westminster Branch of the UK’s UN Association notes that “observers view this decision and a record number of co-sponsoring member states to be a clear indication to those few states which have failed to co-operate”.
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Two years ago I visited the crash site just outside of Ndola on the road to Kitwe...very impressed by this World Heritage site......that plane was brought down.
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