The White Legion was a mercenary unit during the First Congo War (1996–97) employed on the side of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko.

Aundu asked Kengo to set up a plan to hire mercenaries, which was also approved by President Mobutu Sese Seko.

[1] Mobutu apparently sought the help of Executive Outcomes, a private military company which had already worked in both the Angolan and Sierra Leone Civil Wars.

There was a group of around twenty to thirty Western Europeans, with the majority being French under the lead of the Belgian former colonel Christian Tavernier.

[7] The Legion was deployed on 14 January 1997 and was tasked with training the troops of the Zairean Armed Forces and with defending the city of Kisangani, which was deemed strategically important.

[8] Petrušić had strong connections to the French Direction de la surveillance du territoire and therefore managed to obtain the mercenary contract more easily.

[2] The White Legion consisting of Serbs was deployed at Kisangani on 14 January 1997 and was tasked with protecting the cities airports and providing air support to allied troops.

[13] The also started training the military intelligence force Service d'action et de renseignements militaires (SARM) on unarmed combat and firearms usage of the AK-47, M53 and Dragunov sniper rifle.

Petrusic also tortured civilians with electric shocks from car batteries and bayonet prodding after suspecting them to be AFDL infiltrators.

[19] Shortly before the fall of the city the mercenaries destroyed their headquarters with explosives to prevent the opposite side from capturing their ammunition.