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the home of a Dr. and Mrs. Szeles, Hungarian refugees who fled from similar treatment at
the hands of the Communists in 1948. His home was clearly identified by an enormous
Red Cross flag. Several ambulances were usually parked in front. For days on end UN
troops machine-gunned this house twice a day--as convoys were deployed in the morning
and when they returned in the late afternoon. On one occasion hand grenades were
thrown in the windows. Mrs. Szeles, who had sought shelter in the corridor, was badly
wounded by the explosions. Dr. Szeles counted 355 bullet holes in the walls of his home.
All the windows were broken, the furniture smashed to pieces, the whole house reduced
to shambles. Fleeing from Communist terror in Hungary at the age of fifty, Dr. Szeles
came to Katanga to start a new life. Ten years later, at the age of sixty, be is once again
deprived of his home--thanks to the organization that was supposedly created "to save
succeeding generations from the scourge of war." 15
At the height of the UN attack on Elisabethville, Mr. Georges Olivet, the Swiss
international Red Cross representative there, cabled an appeal to his Geneva office to
persuade the United Nations to stop firing on Red Cross vehicles. A few days later he
disappeared while on a mercy mission to UN headquarters. It was not until eleven days
afterward that his wrecked ambulance was found. It had been bit with bazooka rockets
and machine-gunned by United Nations troops. In an attempt to conceal the crime, the UN
soldiers had hurriedly buried Mr. Olivet and his two companions in a shallow grave next to
the road. The United Nations issued two contradictory explanations of what happened.
The first one charged that European mercenaries of the Katangese army had kidnapped
Olivet. Later, when the evidence was disclosed, it admitted that the vehicle had been
struck by UN fire but claimed that it was an accident caused by Olivet’s driving "into cross
fire." 16 When the Red Cross asked for an official investigation into this matter, the United
Nations--which had launched an extensive investigation of Lumumba's death--denied the
request on the basis that it did not have "adequate legal or technical resources." 17
The Roman Catholic bishop of Elisabethville accused the United Nations of "sacrilegious
profanities" and revealed that their troops had deliberately destroyed and looted churches
and had wantonly murdered innocent civilians. 18
More than ninety percent of the buildings bombed by UN aircraft were strictly civilian
structures with no possible military value. As briefly described in the opening passages of
this book, the operation rapidly assumed the aspect of full-scale war. With all utilities cut
and no refrigeration, civilians rushed about frantically trying to find something to eat and
drink. A light rain brought thankful Katangans to every rain spout to collect the life-saving
drinking water. The stench of rotting food hung over the city and mingled with the smell of
death.
The Communist press around the world was jubilant. Even in Rome the Social Democratic
La Guistizia said that the UN had succeeded "in bringing back peace," and the Communist
newspaper L'Unità called Operation Morthor "a hard defeat for the colonialists and their
agents." 19
Miraculously, Katanga held the UN at bay. News correspondent Peter Younghusband
gave the following eyewitness report in an article datelined Elisabethville, September 15,
1961:
Katanga Province President Tshombe said yesterday that he and his
people will fight "to the last drop of blood" to keep Katanga independent.
I spoke to Tshombe in a small villa situated in the grounds of his official