Documentary film Cold Case Hammarskjöld
In 1961, Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold, died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. He was en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. Was the crash an accident, or was he assassinated?
Hammarskjold was both popular and controversial, taking a stance in the fight against colonialism in times of instability and the Cold War. What started as perhaps unlikely conspiracy theories involving conglomerates fighting for minerals and metal resources has evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and 15 other people were shot down,