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PART I<br />
KATANGA<br />
A Case History<br />
Regret your odious lie constituted by statement that UNO mercenaries do not fire at Red<br />
Cross ambulances and others--stop--You would be authorised to speak after spending<br />
night with us in hospital bombarded by your shameless and lawless ruffians.<br />
Telegram to U Thant from the forty-six civilian doctors of Elisabethville, the Congo<br />
CHAPTER ONE: THE FIRST SPADE<br />
It was December 12, 1961. Christmas was coming to Katanga.<br />
Smith Hempstone, African correspondent for the Chicago News, reported from<br />
Elisabethville:<br />
<strong>The</strong> United Nations jets next turned their attention to the center of the<br />
city. Screaming in at treetop level while excited soldiers and white<br />
civilians popped away at them with anything from 22 pistols to<br />
submachine guns, they blasted the post office and radio station,<br />
severing Katanga's communications with the outside world . . .. One<br />
came to the conclusion that the United Nations' action was intended to<br />
make it more difficult for correspondents to let the world know what was<br />
going on in Katanga, since the only way press dispatches could be filed<br />
was to drive them 150 miles to Northern Rhodesia over a road studded<br />
with tribal roadblocks and subject to United Nations air attacks . . .. By<br />
December 12, 1961 . . . mortar shells hailed down on the center of the<br />
city as the softening up process began . . .. Among the "military<br />
objectives" hit: a beauty shop, the apartment of the French consul,<br />
Sabena Airways office, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Elisabethville<br />
museum.<br />
A car pulled up in front of the Grand Hotel Leopold II where all of us<br />
were staying. "Look at the work of the American criminals," sobbed the<br />
Belgian driver. "Take a picture and send it to Kennedy!" In the back<br />
seat, his eyes glazed with shock, sat a wounded African man cradling in<br />
his arms the body of his ten year old son. <strong>The</strong> child's face and belly had<br />
been smashed to jelly by mortar fragments. 1<br />
<strong>The</strong> forty-six civilian doctors of Elisabethville unanimously issued a joint report on the<br />
United Nations actions against Katanga which included the following account of the<br />
December 12, 1961, bombing of the Shinkolobwe hospital:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shinkolobwe hospital is visibly marked with an enormous red cross<br />
on the roof of the administrative pavilion. . . .<br />
At about 8 a.m. . . . two aeroplanes flew over the hospital twice at very