six hundred troops of the french foreign legion's 2 foreign paratroop regiment took back kolwezi after a seven-day battle and airlifted 2,250 european citizens to belgium, but not before the fnlc massacred 80 europeans and 200 africans. in one instance the fnlc killed 34 european civilians who had hidden in a room. however, pierre yambuya claims many of the civilian deaths were caused by faz-troops and not the flnc.