Marc Goosens (ya rasu a ranar 12 ga Nuwamba 1968) dan haya ne dan kasar Belgium wanda yayi yakin basasar kasar Yemen kuma yayi aikin sojan kasar Biafra a lokacin yakin basasar Najeriya.Sojojin Najeriya ne suka kashe shi a Onitsha a lokacin da ake Operation Hiroshima.

Marc Goosens
Rayuwa
Haihuwa Flanders (en) Fassara, 20 century
ƙasa Beljik
Mutuwa 12 Nuwamba, 1968
Sana'a
Sana'a mercenary (en) Fassara

Goosens ya yi aiki a matsayin jami'i a cikin sojojin Belgium kuma ya kasance mai ba da shawara ga soja ga gwamnatin Kongo a lokacin rikicin Kongo.[1] A lokacin yakin basasa a Yemen,shi da wasu tsoffin sojojin Kongo sun horar da 'yan tawayen sarauta.[2] Ya shiga yakin basasar Najeriya karkashin jagorancin dan uwansa Rolf Steiner,kuma yana daya daga cikin sojojin haya na kasashen waje da dama da suka sadaukar da kansu wajen fafutukar kafa kasar Biafra,kasar ballewar da ta ayyana 'yancin kai daga Najeriya. [3] A kokarin da ba a yi nasara ba karkashin jagorancin dan kasar Wales Taffy Williams na kwato Onitsha daga hannun sojojin Najeriya,Goosens ya mutu bayan harbin da aka yi masa a hanta.[4] Karkashin taken Biafra:Final Mission,Paris Match,jerin hotuna masu ban mamaki da Gilles Caron ya buga a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba,1968 ya nuna sojojin Biafra dauke da gawar Goosens. Goosens yana ɗaya daga cikin sojojin haya biyar da suka mutu wanda Frederick Forsyth ya sadaukar da littafinsa The Dogs of War.[5] An ce Goosens ya zama abin koyi ga halayen ɗan haya Marc Vlaminck a cikin littafin Forsyth. [6]

  1. Peter Baxter: Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970, Helion & Company/30° South Publishers, Solihull/Pinetown 2014, S. 50
  2. Anthony Mockler: The new mercenaries. Corgi Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-552-12558-X, S. 168
  3. Frederick Forsyth: The Biafra Story. The Making of an African Legend. Barnsley, Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2007, ISBN 978-1-84415-523-1, S. 112
  4. Frederick Forsyth: Outsider. Die Autobiographie. C. Bertelsmann, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10266-4, S. 259, Anthony Mockler: The new mercenaries. Corgi Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-552-12558-X, S. 179ff
  5. Frederick Forsyth: Die Hunde des Krieges. Thriller. Piper, München 2001 (Erstausgabe ebd. 1974), ISBN 3-492-23127-6, S. 6
  6. Anthony Mockler: The new mercenaries. Corgi Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-552-12558-X, S. 194