00:00Did you know the most powerful peacemaker the United Nations ever had may have been killed by the very countries
00:05that were supposed to protect him?
00:07In September 1961, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld boarded a plane over northern Rhodesia.
00:13He was hours away from brokering a ceasefire in the Congo, one that would have cut off Belgian mining companies
00:19from some of the richest mineral deposits on Earth.
00:21The plane went down. Everyone on board died. Investigators ruled it an accident. The case was closed.
00:28Then, decades later, things started surfacing. Declassified NSA intercepts. CIA assessments. MI6 documents.
00:36South African intelligence files. Multiple eyewitnesses described a second aircraft following the plane that night.
00:43In 2019, a formal UN investigation concluded there was significant, credible evidence the plane had been shot down or sabotaged.
00:51Here is the part that should disturb you.
00:53The governments with the most to gain from his death were the exact same governments that classified the evidence for
00:5860 years.
01:00The greatest statesman of the 20th century. Gone. And someone made sure we would never find out why.
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