East Congo, Kivu, Kwilu (Dem. Rep. of Congo)

(separatist movement)

Last modified: 2005-07-23 by jarig bakker
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• History of the flag
• Bukavu republic?

• Democratic Republic of Congo

From the Flag Bulletin, vol. 3, No. 4 (Summer 1964), p. 63:

Finally, an old flag has again been raised in the centre of Africa. A revolt against the central Congolese government at Leopoldville [now Kinshasa] has broken out in Kwilu and Kivu provinces. The Kivu rebels have established a Revolutionary Government of the Eastern Congo with headquarters at Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. The Ruzizi Valley in Kivu is controlled by the rebels who claimed to be led by Patrice Lumumba, who in fact was killed in 1961. Their flag is the blue and gold flag with six stars which was used by the Congo from 1960 to 1963.

I added in my pages a alternative image for the flag of the Republic of Bukavu. I include in first time the flag according Oleg Tarnowski. Now, I include the flag according Lucien Philippe. I believe that the version of Philippe is more sure. Philippe say that the flags "is the Katanga flag without the three cross because the crosses are a a seccesionist symbol of Katangais, and the Bukavu flag is not Katangais".<