The Dangerous Mercenary : Mike Hoare
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- On 25 November 1981, armed mercenaries entered the Eastern African country of the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party by the name "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Their objective was to return to power the ex-President of the country who had been deposed in a coup in 1977.
This group was led by a man by the name Mike Hoare, who was a soldier of fortune , that is a mercenary. Hoare was once a mainstay of news headlines around the world and he rose to prominence as a highly sought after gun for hire in Africa. This was in the era of newly independent Africa, during which mercenaries of different nationalities were recruited by those with interests in the region particularly in the Congo.
Hoare’s career as a mercenary, came to an embarrassing end in the failed coup d’état in the Seychelles and subsequent plane hijacking in 1981, during which he was captured and sentenced to 10 years in jail, serving just over three.
In this episode of African Biographics, we cover the life story of Mad Mike Hoare, the menace mercenary and his escapades in Africa.
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THE CONGO: A CASE STUDY OF MERCENARY EMPLOYMENT by Colonel George H. Dodenhoff, U.S. Marine Corps School of Naval Warfare
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My father was ex Rhodesian SAS living in Durban when he was approached by Hoares group to join them in the Seychelles. He declined on account of his children and his lack of insanity. On their return to SA, some of the men stayed at my parents apartment. This turned into a hideout for a while when the more serious charges came up. My father convinced them to turn themselves in to face their slap on the wrist. I don't think my dad ever actually met Mike but he knew several of the group, who were also ex Rhodesian SAS.
Fiction
mi vida loca
They cancelled the SAS the selection course the year I joined.Stuck me on the OFC at Gwello.Didnt like me
Jesus, I bet he was a hard b'stard (phrase used in admiration not a put down).
@@05Rudey He doesn't come across like it. He's very reserved and most of the stories I've heard have been from his mates.
The African movie industry is asleep. They have so many Hollywood-level blockbusters at the ready if they would just convert all this history into films.
Would africans be intrested in a movie with a white hero/main caracter?
@@frisianprideworldwide Absolutely. That's what most Hollywood films are about anyway. Also people are still fascinated by colonial era stuff. Just like WWII stuff still sells well in Europe.
@Val O'Connell All the more reason for African filmmakers to take up the mantle. I've been watching a lot of African history documentaries on CZcams and there's so much content that would make for some really great films. I think they would even find a ready international film audience in the US, UK and Europe because they're such different stories to what they're used to.
The last half decent African film was the wild geese which was loosely based on Mike Hoare
@Val O'Connell You assume he's American when every indication says African? Interesting.
Hoar was a creature of his times. During the cold war years, there was a huge struggle between Moscow and Washington aimed at influencing multiple countries mainly in Central and South America and Africa, and to various extents, all over the world. All any Dictator had to do was say he was “anti Communist” and the US would give him money and guns. In return for the huge amount of weapons and food stuffs the Russians were pouring into Cuba to keep its economy afloat, Fidel sent Cuban mercenary troops into the Congo and several other African nations to help prop up the Communist regimes. Great Britain and the US did the same, hiring men such as Mike Hoar to equip and organize military units to oppose the communist troops.
Well said.
So, I'm a lifelong military historian and a US Army combat veteran. There's an awful lot of fluff and nonsense on TV and the internet that purports to be 'true' but bears no resemblance to anything in the historical record. ESPECIALLY about notorious figures like Mike Hoare, Bob Denard and other guns for hire in the golden age of 'insurrections r us'.
Your statement here is remarkably true to the facts of the matter. The US and USSR **created** the market for reptiles like them to make a living... from the post War Two banana republic interventions to Africa to state funded terrorism and more. With the exception of national wars [Korea, Vietnam, the Soviets in Afghanistan] where the major powers flexed their muscles, every single armed struggle between VE Day and 9/11 had men like Mike Hoare in it causing trouble for pay.
Mind you, I didn't agree with their bullshit then and I don't agree with PMCs now. AFAIC, if you hang up your soldier suit to kill for pay, then you hang up the honors that come with that suit. You get your silly ass whacked working for Halliburton or whatever Bullfrog Inc [Blackwater] is calling itself these days, it's THEIR job to retrieve your corpse, not your nation of citizenship.
@@carlhicksjr8401 well said. Mercenary service is as old as walking forward independently of what names it has now, and anyone who enlists - or sign contracts, in that case - know what's he doing, from all points of view.
You are spot on right, things were different during that Era.
@@carlhicksjr8401 What war has the US been involved in that was either defensive or not for money, essentially anyone in the US/NATO military are killing for pay and to support corporate billionaires.
My band was playing in Durban in the mid-'60s and several of the mercenaries, who had just returned from the Congo, frequented the venue. We became quite friendly with some of them. I was shown photos of atrocities that haunt me still. The worst was of youngsters taken to the docks where they were grilled for info about the rebels. If none was forthcoming they were thrown between a ship and the dock and thus crushed to death. There was plenty of looting, in fact, that seemed to be a prime motivation. When I was in the then Rhodesia I met up with one I'd known in Durban. He invited me to breakfast, and I asked him what he was doing. He had become a prison guard and volunteered to be a witness at hangings. If I remember rightly they were paid 5 pounds. He said he didn't like it as much when they hanged women, as their insides were torn out. Needless to say, I lost my appetite. We were very friendly with one of them who lived with us for a while. He was later involved in the Seychelles coup and was one of those sentenced to death. After he was released, I only saw him once, and, even though he was still young his hair was snow white. I guess that's what waiting to be hanged can do to you.
No one cares who Bruce bOOME is and nothing you have said is true!
@@iainmiller3113 I have witnesses, and I don't lie. So I will treat your comment with the contempt it deserves. Don't bother to respond, I have no interest in you.
Africa will heal itself eventually with time..the same way the world has somewhat healed part itelf compared to the 1940's...Africans I sometimes say..are too forgiving..maybe for a bigger reason unknown to me...
That was really interesting. Thanks for sharing. I have to ask though, what kind of music was popular there at the time (or what did your band play, and was it popular)?
@@raoulduke344 Hi, It was the '60s, so Beatles Stones Hrnans Hermits, British Invasion, etc, were popular. My band was mainly a cover band called 4 Jacks and a Jill, but later we made popular records in South Africa and are the only South African band to date to have a song in the USA Billboard Top 100 recorded in South Africa. It was called Master Jack. As a result, we toured internationally, including the USA and Canada.
Being an ex military soldier here in oz, i had the pleasure of meeting Mad Mike in Melbourne at a recruiting site. He was a great person and i would follow him anywhere.
"Being an ex military soldier..." As opposed to all the non-military soldiers.
Sorry, couldn't resist =]
Thank you for explaining so well. I am Irish and have watched the story of The Siege Of Jadotville. It made me look more into African history, especially the Congo in the 60's. You have answered a lot of questions that European people don't fully understand. It Hurt's me to learn what this continent goes through. Has gone through for so many generation's. Respect, Knowledge is power. Keep up the good work.
@@justinyermaw2986This was back in the troubles I'm assuming? Were there many Irish catholics in the forces?
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@@justinyermaw2986 I hear you defo bout how the British played off both sides in Ireland for sure !!! You guys stood firm!! Sad to say in Africa the government’s are corrupt to fuck
@@justinyermaw2986 Yeah I understand that completely. Scotland is one of the few places in the world and Irishman can go and remain Irish.
@@justinyermaw2986 yeah defo but atleast whole tribes or certain sects of society no longer get wiped out here in Britain thankfully 🤷🏿🙏🏿
Love your videos.
Clear,balanced, to the point.
This is a well balanced and truthful video.
Thank you very much.
-- P.S. If this is an example of your work, you deserve more subscribers.
Mad Mike Hoare's book 'Congo Mercenary' is an excellent read.
Good tip, i'll check it out.
These sort of men do it for the adventure. I have a friend that spent 15 odd years in the British army, joining at 18. He mostly served in Norther Ireland during the troubles and also went to the Falklands. After leaving the military he learnt to fly then got into the airline industry. Not long after he got a command on a Boeing 737 he resigned and became a mercenary. Flying was just way to tedious for him.
Lion blood I tell you.
They do it because they are sociopaths and psychopaths.
@@F1lmtwitExactly!!!! Destabilizing an entire country and shifting the lives of innocent people for the worse isn’t the work of an adventurous person but rather a pure lowlife.
Your channel deserves more attention man
Thank you for FL, USA; Great documentary, I appreciate how you present your documentary as a professional, not giving personal opinions, giving only the facts. Congratulations, hope for more! LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED!
I had the honour to serve with 5 Cdo for 2 contracts of 6 months.
We trained in Kamina base ( near the airport) from there were flown on a C130 With no markings,but American flight crew to Bunia, after further training we departed on a motorised column, operating next to the borders of Uganda & Sudan,( Aba,Paulis,Faradge,Dungog etc etc) the 2nd contract the base was outside Albertville, we left 4 operations from a village ( Cementation) in the middle of the night boarding the Ermies and a few fully loaded open barges,we got toed our along the lake all night and the all of the following day,in a rainy windy day we whent ashore on PT boats,attacking and taking Barraka ( a large village with proper houses,church etc,a very hard fight to take over the place the enemy were well armed and trained and led.We captured 120mm mortar,82mm morters,RPD Ak a few Ppsh.after a few weeks a column moved up the hill to attract Fiji etc etc
I enjoyed my time in the Congo,same beautiful areas,lake Tanganyika is fantastic. Pitty the people in the bush will never develop there is no infrastructure nor there will be in the near future. Atrocities I never so any,I did see people dying in combat both sides,we where decided in commandos,I was 54 commando,latter force,John John
Don't worry Manny, we who have studied our history and know the truth understand whats what. This is just another hit piece like so many over the years to try and make the White Mercenary and his black soldiers the No. Enemy of humanity. Utter crap. The savages 5 Commando and later 6 Commando and Executive Outcomes stopped on the continent was a benefit to all humanity.
You're still in Africa?? I'm back in SA now..
@@francoiswilliams no mate,I so the writing on the wall 49 years ago,and gave up Africa the Continente of my great grandfather birth,I migrated,and have no desire to ever go back,Africa has gone back to prehistoric times.
Take care
God Bless you men.
hello Manny. I Would like to ask you a question. This land of your ancestors, would that be the former Portuguese West Africa / Angola ?
EXCELLENT bio-doc on Mad Mike! Thanks for making it.
Great Biog, well researched !
I am new to the channel, and i live in switzerland. There are thousands of channels like yours, but sadly only about europe and america. So your channel opens my eyes tp a whole knew world of knowledge. Thank you for that my friend
Good job my brother, Im hooked on your videos as a Zambian living in Wisconsin
I remember my Dad taking me to the pictures to see the movie "THE WILD GEESE." I loved it.
Though I had no idea, that it was based 'loosely' on the exploits of the Mad Mike and 5 commando.
This was a great video. Thanks for sharing it. Every day, is most definitely a school day. Thank you.
Daniel Carney, Rhodesian Police
@@therespectedlex9794 What about them?
My mates uncle was a member of that fine unit of men.
Last I knew he'd relocated to S'A'. (Many moons ago) Probably well retired now though.
no police unit are "fine men". anyone who wants to police anyone should instantly be banned from ever being a police. the same with politics.
You're correct and Sir Robert Peel was wrong, no doubt?
My dad took me to see the film for my 10th birthday. Loved the film then and still do.
I'm so grateful I found your channel.
I've learned so much and I'm always looking forward to a new Video .
Thank you so much.
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Fascinating! Great work!
I've officially watched all of your videos and I found this channel just a few days ago. Really great work!
Thanks Joe
@@AfricanBiographics you should do a video on Bob denard who was in Katanga and Seychelles
Thanks for the concise history lesson. Fresh perspective. At least for me.
Great content brother keep them coming 👏
Thank you very much, that was super informative. it´s a shame how little we get to know in europe about african history. Channel subbed immediately.
The roughest guys you will ever meet are former Rhodesians in the bush in West Tanzania or East DR Congo. To listen to those guys around the campfire is really interesting if you bump into them in the bush. Those I have met and talked to in the bush during the last 35 years (I am a big game pro hunter turned wildlife scientist) have been very respectful of African culture and people. Of cause, none of us would be your typical cafe latte drinking politically correct type, so it might be easier to find common ground. However, to me, the love and respect for African culture and languages run deep, and I was happy I could find common ground on those topics with those guys, if on nothing else.
You are a POACHER
No mate, Rhodesians and South Africans are the biggest talkers !
The toughest men you will ever meet and, historically as well as recently, the best military fighting men are Australians.
Particularly former SASR from the eighties - the real quiet achievers!
@@yottiechick I was traveling around in central and western Australia for some months many years ago. Agree there were a lot of nice guys there at the time. Vietnam war guys. I have lived since then in central and eastern Africa. And I can assure you that those former Rhodesians, now Zimbabweans that made it up to here are tough. You have to be tough to survive here in DR Congo and Tanzania. I'm a former pro hunter, now a wildlife scientist and some. My great grandfather came here in the 1890ties as a pro hunter. I have been a pro hunter since I was 15 years old. Hunting alone in the bush for many, many years. Maybe those few Zimbabweans I have met here were those selected few that survived to get up here. Maybe you are right that they are a bunch of pussies, but those I have met in the bush in central Africa were as tough as me and my mates. About quiet guys: I have had the fortune of being in the bush for a long time with a platoon of native Indian special forces guys in the Amazon Forest in South America. I did not have to say anything. Just signal by looking or hand signs that's all. These guys are quiet and tough as hell. I have also been on a training commando exercise with Gurkha special forces in the Central American forest. Quiet tough guys too. Tell me about your experiences. @Maya Kaneko
That's a very funny comment about Australians - but yes, agreed about mad Mike - heard he was all talk... but then again, he was not a South African
@@yottiechick hahaha what a load of bollocks
My Dad was offered a job by Mad Mike after his service in the SAS, but Mum, for the 1st time said "f*ck no"... So he stayed in Australia and raised a family
I found this very interesting, thank you for uploading.
My man , keep these videos coming .
Another excellent video brother. 👍🏾
Thank you Bisi
Well done, AB, a very informative and well produced documentary. If Africans continue to shine an honest spotlight on all those who exercise power over them, past present and future, they will eventually achieve good governance. And from that, successful states and stable societies will form and flourish. I wish you every success!
Amazing stuff...subscribed💯
Loving your channel.
Yes, more about eastern and that part of Southern Africa. Always wanted to know about Seychelles Madagascar etc
Frederick Forsyth author of Day of the Jackal, in the 1970's partly financed, organized and attempted a coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea. Due to poor secrecy the plot was foiled by the Spanish authorities. However, Forsyth used the experience as the basis for his next novel Dogs of War, which told of a coup against a small African nation very similar to EG. The book went into very very elaborate details on the preparations for organizing a coup, from hiring mercs, buying weapons and disguising their destination and purpose, even getting a ship for transport.
The novel seems to have served as a "coup manual" a couple decades later when a UK backed group of mercs led by Mark Thatcher, son of the former UK PM, attempted another coup against Equatorial Guinea, which was also foiled due to poor secrecy.
In 2009, whilst Forsyth was in Guinea Bissau, ostensibly to research for another novel about a coup, there was a coup there in which the president and army chief were assassinated. Just by coincidence 😂
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Unless you have PROOF, yours is nothing but empty fairy tales.
Sent you a link. Yours is nothing but empty fabricated stories. Frederick Forsyth is a WRITER! There is no way he would be sponsoring coups.
Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation.
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This is a good informative video, thank you.
I have known 2 men of the type mentioned on the boat. I was influenced for the good because of it. This presentation is top notch Thanks, Mark Richardson.
Very well done. You presented the story without bias or editorializing. You simply told the story and told it well.
The dude is like a pulp novel character come to life.
You can say that again
I think it was the other way around. The pulp writers used his life as inspiration for their stories.
@@Splunkzop I think more right the first time.
I remember doing a report about him in high-school in 1985.
I'm sure the summary executions of the simba rebels is true. With the knowledge of their brutality, it's no wonder the troops did it. Justified or not.
@@OKBushcraft Too many of them.
What a very informative and historical video...I learned many things about the 5 Commandos and Col.Mike Hoare as well...Wow what his eyes saw in his century on this planet!!!
Great video sir, I have subbed, keep em cominh
One of my Uncles, Irish born, full of wanderlust and yearning for adventure, served with / for Mike Hoare. We don't know the ins and outs of his activities and only discovered his career path when watching the BBC some fifty plus years ago and my mother chirping up that she was looking at one of her brothers when a piece, including live battlefield coverage (in black and white), ran on mercs fighting in some African country. The next time we saw him, 25 years later, was also on the telly, this time the footage was from Dublin where he was a politicians bodyguard. Me, I stuck with the carpentry.
Incredible story. Do you know how your Uncle came into contact with Mike Hoare in the first place? Or any back story? Was he in the army etc?
The century of Mike Hoare's life was the wrong century for Mike Hoare. Had he been born in 1819, he might have lived an adventurous and successful life in South America in the 1840s, or in Civil War America, or with Garribaldi's Italian Revolutionaries, or even with Stanley's African expeditions. But the wars of 1914 - 1945 changed popular attitudes; lawless adventurism became disreputable.
I think the barbaric behaviour and dreadful atrocities of this type of scum against human beings became unpopular aswell.
I think he lived in the correct period and did quite well
Excellent informative documentary taking place in Mother Africa. Thank you sir/brother. SUBSCRIBED
Nicely done and very interesting. Looking forward to watch your channel. 🇿🇼🇿🇼
Brilliant bio of Mad mike's life, you included background political information and direct quotes and even footage of the man being interviewed, good job, well done.
A pretty balanced account of Kike Hoare's career. His biography "Congo Mercenary" is a good book and if you believe it he tried to run 5 Commando along British Army lines. Appendix 4 in the book is titled "5 Commando rules for battle" and covers such things as personal cleanliness, keeping weapons cleaned, honesty and loyalty. I think he was a bit naïve if he believes that there were no atrocities committed by some of his men. The nature of the war in the Congo lent itself to that and in the book he talks about punishing one of his soldiers for rape. He was probably as honourable and ethical as you could get in that environment. My only criticism of the video was having (at 8:40) a picture of Hoare with Roger Moore and Richard Burton on the set of "The Wild Geese" and not making it clear that they were actors and not mercenaries. Richard Burton played a character based on Mike Hoare who was an advisor to the film. In the script Burton's character was supposed to swear a lot but Burton said that when he met Hoare he found that Hoare never used foul language and asked for the script to be changed.
He fought communists, so he obviously wasn't Jewish.
I noticed the shot of the 3 of them, as well and was surprised that there was no dsclaimer, or any explanation!
cool it with the anti-semitic remarks
@@WombatCombatPatrol absolute clown. It was clearly a typo, since after the supposed anti Semitic slur the OP actually went on to praise Hoare way more than he actually deserves, and he wasn't even Jewish in any case. Show some common sense please.
@@NotmyRealname847 it's a line from the movie American psycho
Wow what an excellent video and so well told!
I knew little bits and pieces of this man from Roland's headless Thompson gunner. Thanks for the great video you did alot better than I did researching information on him
Song by the great underrated Warren Zevon!
I knew a guy who (along with his brother) had served with Hoare. The two were in a Jeep that hit a mine - one brother was killed, the other wounded. The surviving one got compensation for his brothers death and for his own injuries. He used this to buy a bar and founded a gay bar. Local legend has it, some local lads who fancied themselves as 'hard fellas', didn't like the idea of a gay bar in town. So one afternoon they decided to make their presence felt... It was apparently one of the biggest mistakes of their miserable lives.
A few days later the old boys network kicked in, and a few 'real' hard men turned up in town (what ever their feelings about the bar owners orientation, he'd paid his dues and apparently was well regarded as a soldier.) and the "wannabe's" were given a lesson in tolerance and induced to leave town.
I also heard a story about Hoare that one of his men had been a semi-professional footballer, and that he'd raped and murdered a girl. Hoare either shot, or ordered him shot, in both knees to fuck up his mercenary and football careers- Hoares reasoning being "Rape unfortunately, goes hand in hand with warfare but the murder was unnecessary." Hoare though, was a self publicist and a bit of a bullshit meister often 'bigging up' his involvement in things.
Hoare was a soldier of fortune, a legend in his own time, brave no nonsense Irish man tough as old boots afraid of nothing. God rest his soul. Born on St Patricks day
Yes, RIP Mike
Irish my hole. I'm Irish. Maybe you are too? His loyalties lay elsewhere
@@hannonpeter you seem to know a lot did you meet him or are you another one of those that glories at the thought of comely maidens bringing in the harvest and dancing at the crossroad,
Herrlich. Danke!
Splendid. Thank you.
My first video from your channel. Excellent data, excellent neutrality, excellent presentation. Subscribing. Good luck!
You are such a gift brother
Thank you
He lived 101 years (1919-2020).There is a documentary (shock-umentary) movie called Africa Blood and Guts 1966 aka Africa Addio made by two italian directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi."Mad "Mike Hoare is mentioned there together with his mercenaries.The movie has real killing on camera.
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Very good documentary. New subscriber!
When it comes to mercenary operations they almost always have the discrete backing of someone's government. The fact that Mad Mike would have the backing of the South African government is no surprise. His opposite Bob Denard always had the backing his homeland France. What little I know about Mad Mike comes from the book "The New Mercenary" by Anthony Mockler which opens with his encounter with Colonel Hoare at the hotel he was staying in. He even remarked that they preferred to be called "volunteers" rather than mercenaries. Mockler points out there were atrocities but they were on both sides. The looting by the mercenaries was rampant, but at the same time there were no mechanisms to stop it. Consider most modern armies have military police units to keep order, but there were certainly none in 5 Commando, so nothing could be done about it. However, there was an incident where one mercenary was caught raping and murdering a girl. Hoare took it upon himself to deal with the matter, the mercenary in question was a football play (soccer if you're American), so he shot the man's big toes off so he couldn't play the game anymore. Incidentally, it does seem appropriate that a mercenary group should try to sneak into a country as a society of beer drinkers.
I remember reading about that girl who was raped and shot. She was allegedly 12. It was Hoares men that spurred him to action. The footballer wasn't one of Hoare's men and therefore he was somewhat reluctant to take action. Would he have been so slow to react if the culprit was black?!?
@@thenewmayorofcrazytown7392 Keep in mind mercenary operations are not like regular military operations where you have backing and organization that instills and enforces discipline. He had to not only earn but maintain the respect of his troops under circumstances that were less than ideal. Mercenaries can mutiny very easily if they don't believe they're being treated well by their superiors. So it was a miracle he even shot this man's feet to start with, and I believe he did it himself. Nothing justifies what happened. It was grotesque and under normal military law should have been dealt with severity, but it was still a miracle anything was done at all. Not to mention crippling someone for life can be worse than killing them. As for racial issues I can't be sure. Outside of South Africa he might not have had the luxury of being partial to his racial beliefs being that he was in an African country that didn't necessarily look well upon white colonists.
@@schizoidboy . Obviously you have no knowledge of a White American solider and his fellow White Americans who raped and killed a 11 year old Iraqi girl by the name of Abeer.
These valiant White Americans killed most of her family and then as the story goes went on to a BBQ. None of these White American soldiers were ever punished as I recall.
@@faharoon357 Pardon me, this was about something that happened with a bunch of mercenaries, not American troops. While I don't know anything about this incident you're describing (though unfortunately these things do happen which is why there is a need for military police and Army CID and other agencies within the military to handle these matters - they don't just go after guys who steal cans of peaches) they are punishable under military codes of justice. Moreover, you have to be careful of everything you hear relating to battlefield atrocities. I remember hearing about Iraqi soldiers yanking babies out of incubators in Kuwait by a crying girl who was testifying in front of Congress. Apparently that never happened.
@@schizoidboy . My dear fellow you have too much faith in Military Code of Justice. My knowledge of this solider Greene raping and killing of Abeer among others is closer to first hand that I want it to be. All of that MCJ is fine but I want to say here and now that while it was effective in a few cases it failed more that it succeeded. And it too is corrupt as in the case of My Lai and that Povick case (to name.)
The Abeer case make the news for a cycle or two and even then I remember the people (the public and the likes of Rush Limbaugh) dismissing as it being letting of steam.
The Arabs are weak they could not even sustain that case at the Hague.
Wow! Interesting story! Cheers!❤️🇨🇦
Thanks James
You nailed it.......keep the videos coming and I'll keep learning
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Excellent documentary
Thanks good input
My family stayed in this dude’s house in the South of France in the early oughts, we hung out! The man had some absolutely wild stories.
I bet I’d of loved that would never want too leave
@brankeanc2830 how did that come about? Can you share any stories?
Love the footage from "Africa addio" lol that's a cool documentary, I haven't seen it in a while (it was on CZcams) but it shows some of Stanleyville and boende if I remember correctly
great channel!!!
Good documentation. Good to know our history in Africa
Great video! Would love to see more videos on Ethiopia or their current prime minister.
I was a young teenager living in Apartheid South Africa in those days. I can still remember the stories of Mike Hoare, but for me, he was not really real, just a character from a book. It was a strange time with some strange events and characters. I can still vaguely remember that incident. Back in those days, you could get away with quite a bit if you were fighting the "Red Danger".
Hoare is one of the ones who realized you can rape pillage and do whatever you want if you play the US and Soviets off each other in AFrica. Bob Denard also sticks out.
very well made documentary, even down to properly giving references & sources.
I'm Subscribing & Also interested in the state of Congo today.
Thank you so much...Didn't know this aspect of Congolese History
AS a young boy I remember reading the ads in the back of "Soldier of Fortune" magazine looking for soldiers to fight in Rhodesia. Ah, the good old days...
I had a couple of mates, Aussie who went there to fight. I had ambitions, being a couple of years younger at the time, but got over it by the time I went to uni. Rhodesia was over by then, and I never saw those mates again.
Huge untold back story to the mercs in the Congo.
Belgian people have had a deep mistrust of paper money since WW1.
As such they kept their wealth in gold. In the banks in the Congo.
So even quite small banks in the hinterland had gold stored in their safes & vaults.
The mercs became aware of this after looting a provincial bank quite early on in their operation.
Demanding cash, paper money, the captured bank manager explained that most of the wealth was in gold bullion.
The mercs added that gold to their loot. Word quickly spread amongst the various groups of mercs.
Thereafter in their rolling operation across the Congo. The local banks were a prime target.
Their favoured method of access was to use the British made, anti tank rocket Wombat weapon.
Once the town was secured. The wombat team gave the bank the once over.
Then blew their way into the vault/strong room, to remove the gold.
When the mercs operation was declared over. They faced the problem of getting this large quantity of looted gold out of the country.
After some planning it was decided to go through Rwanda, into Uganda, then Kenya & depart from Kenay by boat, back to South Africa.
Travelling by road with armed to the teeth mercs in jeeps. The gold convoy of 6 or 7.5 ton army trucks set off.
All went smoothly until they reached the Uganda border. There the Ugandan army refused them entry into Uganda.
The leader of the Ugandan army unit was none other than a certain Idi Amin! (Now know a major factor born in Amin for accumulating easy wealth had happened.)
A bargain was reached for safe passage through Uganda. 1 of the gold trucks was handed over to Amin's unit for the price of a safe & escorted passage through Uganda to the Kenyan border.
All went smoothly at the Kenyan border. Some dollars granted entry & safe passage to Mombasa.
Mombasa to SA went smoothly.
It was never ever disclosed as to how much the value of the looted gold was worth.
As a kid who's parents lived & worked in Tororo, eastern Uganda. I went to the hotel, with my Dad to see the mercs! The hotel was just off the main road to Kenya passed Tororo. The border into Kenya was only 12 miles from Tororo.
The mercs stopped for lunch & beers at the hotel.
Be fascinating to know what became of the looted gold.
@@HenryParkes-kp1yc Last paragraph. No book. I saw the mercs with own eyes!
@@andybuntyou saw them with your eyes. But did they tell you this story?!
The gold route is pretty similar even today.
Africa!
Once you've spent any time in |South Africa, it's practically impossible to walk away.
Great job, well done.
This is a great channel
After living through all this adventure and danger he still nearly lived up to nearly 100
imagine the stories he has to tell
He was.100 or 101 when he died
Legend and excellent audio books if you had read or listened to one you would have known that the plane was told not to land and the pilot offered to take them with him after he saved them and the passengers when the refueled plane was being targeted by artillery fire
Another good video.
im liking this channel, very interesting content, keep it up bro,
Mike Hoare was a hero of mine as a young man and as a young soldier. He certainly had some adventures. Vale Mad Mike.
Holding up mercenaries as heroes is nothing to be proud of.
Get over yourself.
Men of that time
Geez...the world is fuecked up...sad thing is insane brutal killers like Mike..die of old age..something they don't deserve...
@@brin57 The fact someone someone seems to be proud to make that statement is nuts to me.
@@TehCheese I know, right. Killers for hire to the highest bidder. Thats all they are.
excellent show and his life was a well lived one
The Wild Geese ... Hardy Kruger, Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris ... unforgotten ...
This was a very impressive video by the narrator. 👏👏👏
The picture of Mike Hoare on the set of The Wild Geese with Rodger Moore and Richard Burton looked convincing.
imagine leading his life and then continue living up to 100 years of age
Mad Mike needs a movie. That whole period. Dark of the Sun is the best we’ve got for the time frame. Executive Outcomes could use one as well. Like Blood Diamond.
Great historic presentation! I watched the film The Wild Geese and had no idea it was based on a real character and loosely om real life events.
Over 50 years ago, I met a 17 year old friend on holiday in the highlands of Scotland, his parents worked in South Africa and as a family spent most of their free time at the local country club. He remembers meeting Col Hoares mercenaries, young 20 something super fit men who used to compete with each other racing round the pool on their hands. For some reason in the 60’s this didn’t seem unusual or particularly wrong.
Wonder who could do that today? And how many that could are in Ukraine.
"Being a man wasn't weird or wrong in the 60s"
@@2Spookeh4Me And now the vile monsters are spreading their venom even in the military -- and in a couple years we will (I fear) be called on to stand against an enemy schooled from birth in the superiority of their nation and the rightness of their cause.
Super fit men competing in physical stunts isn't 'wrong' or even unusual.
Toppling governments for pay, however, is.
In every shitty brushfire war between VJ Day and 9/11, there was some despot dictator trying to settle tribal scores and play himself off as a friend of free democracy and/or world socialism. And propping up that despot there was a maladjusted white man who learned the trade in Malaya or Algeria or Vietnam or South Africa [or Moscow or Potsdam or Budapest...] laughing his ass off all the way to the bank. Each one of these clowns couldn't live without the adrenaline rush of killing so they decided they'd ride their FN-FALs to Valhalla like a witch on a broom.
@@carlhicksjr8401 And you're saying the equally tribal but even crueller despots (like Mugabe. Or Idi Amin?) didn't fully deserve and then some what they got? Hoare didn't exactly end up rich. Mobutu however, who toppled his man Tshombé....
My uncle Keith fought with Mike Hoares 5th Commando and still had his uniform in the late 80's.
He never talked about the bad stuff, just the beauty of the country and some of the funnier things that happened around him.
Like Mike Hoare, my uncle was a fierce opponent of Communism.
Bravo 👏 Pity they weren't more successful - the new regimes seem to have turned RSA nto something nearly as bad as Rhodesia became, from what friends and relatives tell us. We left when I was still a teenager.
So your uncle was a hired gun for a wrinkled, depressingly short and impressively ugly, former safari guide; who went on to become a war criminal in the employ of one of the most despised so-called "statesmen" in African history? Wow, what a great story and claim to fame! I guess I would also tell everybody I knew if I was kin to a brainless stooge-for-pay of an Irish nancy, who (even with CIA and Belgian paratrooper support) just barely managed to help contain a local revolt against Amin, or Mobutu, or some other such African leader of high esteem. So your family pride makes sense.
My dad also joined Force John John to stop the rebels from committing the terrible atrocities...,I never thought of my dad as anything other than a brave man prepared to fight for the good ... he was wounded in1965 and was flown back to South Aftica ... he passed in January 2023 age 87 ... RIP Dad
@@lesleyevangelides5935 I'm sorry you lost your dad last year.
I lost my mom 6 months before you lost your father.
I still miss her terribly.
Haven't had a chance to learn much about Africa but this channel is awesome. I try to keep up with it. You should do a video about the power of evangelical pastors and movements in places like Uganda 🇺🇬
Thanks!
Thanks so much. That was a very honest, fair presentation of this period in African history and about the real man Mike Hoare. For better or worse, for good or evil or something in between Mad Mike Hoare was an interesting brave man and yes, a part of mid 20th century African history.
Thank you so much African Biographics. I hope to see many other fair, well researched history videos from you. Take care. John Left behind outside of Chicago USA.
I would love for this channel to do a documentary such as this one about the foreign, white mercenaries led by the infamous Colonel Callen in Angola circa 1975.
They fought on the side of the FNLA which was led by African leader Holden Roberto.
There is a brilliant account of this in the book "Firepower" by Chris Dempster, a former British soldier turned mercenary.
It is an absolutely hair raising book which details the fight against the communist and Cuban backed forces of the MPLA.
I highly reccomend it to anyone interested in such subject matter.
The Cubans were the good guys. The other groups were backed by the whyte supremacists.
Great insight
Interesting lecture
I simply cannot believe more people don’t know about Mad Mike Hoare!
Dated his daughter (granddaughter?) in the '70s in Durbs.. He was certainly well-known in Natal.
Politics and tribalism in Africa are a good breeding ground for people like Mike Hoare. Surprised he lived to 100, he sure had a charmed life.
Lol😅
I am very vaguely familiar with the story having seen it and heard it now it's amazing if not astonishing any live to be 100 years old I'm also surprised as not a screenplay thank you for sharing this with us😊
Cheers My Cousin! Well-Presented! My Birth Father knew the Man they met in WWII, in Africa, plotting with Rommel, to kill Hitler! He spoke briefly of Hoare, that he had more 'balls-than-brains', but, was admittedly, a 'helleva'-guy! Peace & Blessings! :)
Major Hoare and his 5 Commando was force for pure good against a violent and savage enemy, who raped, murdered and sometimes ate their predominantly white victims, clergy, expats and native white country folk alike. He along with the French contingent of 4 and 6 Commando did a great thing in stopping the horrors of Maoist communism spreading south to Rhodesia and South Africa. A true hero and legend. The Seychelles Affair was backed and funded by the CIA and BOSS, South African Intelligence as one of the so called Mercs was actually a BOSS spy and said so in court. Likewise, the CIA approached and funded Hoare in his African campaigns, after the CIA Station Chief was a guest on one of Mikes tours into deep Africa. He wrote many books on sailing, his Mercenary life and soldiering in general and on the Cathar's in France.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Those white people were in the wrong country for a start it wasn't theirs.
@@j.p2213 Not a good argument mate... if you claim this is a valid excuse for your particular politic, then idiots who want "racial purity" or even "lebensraum" anywhere (like say, your home for example) become just as justified as you are in approving genocide.
I thought Moose was being embarrassingly extreme until I read your reply. Hoare was not a hero. He was a hired gun who lived for the thrill. Just because he was good at what he did doesn't mean that he himself was. He lived and died by the sword. Admirable from his certain point of view perhaps, but bloody amoral from any other.
This is why pseudo-revolutionary propaganda is failing to reach working class scum like me.Every argument goes straight to its stupid ideology, never to rationalism or justice... only to "social/natural justice" and to a literally bloody dogma.
Just remember, there is always some bastard out there who KNOWS you are in their rightful country. Especially when you KNOW their silly claims to be utterly ridiculous.
Imagine if an africa, an arab or asian were to go around europe or the United States supporting destabilization, coups, regime change etc, would any right thinking person say such a person is a hero or force for the good?
@@lordchickenhawk 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm just saying the obvious if those white people weren't there they would not have got killed simple.
@@j.p2213
Firstly, that is not what you said at all.
Secondly, your "rebuttal" is just the same pig wearing lipstick.
Finally, look at Zev's comment. That is how to make a reasonable comment.
So from joining the British Army in 1939 (Rank Private) and leaving in 1946 (Rank Major), he went from the rank of Private to Major..??
That alone makes him a 100% Warrior.
I have worked with some retired Legionaries. I think they are cut from the same cloth. Very interesting people. This is an excellent documentary.
Thanks bro am from Seychelles