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...tears. It's the tears you like, isn't it?" shrieked one weeping man to the foreign news photographers at work in the shell-torn streets. And the people of Elisabethville would never forget or forgive the bomb blasts that killed the innocent; a wild-eyed Belgian drove up to a group of foreign correspondents, shouting "Look, look at the work of the American gangsters!" In the back seat were two bloodied civilians and a dead child in its mother's arms...
...Ditende, a prominent chief of the Lunda tribe, later to become Mwata Yamvo Ditende Yawa Nawezi III, supreme ruler of all the Lunda. Ditende's influence helped when Tshombe sought and won a seat on the Elisabethville city council (a tame advisory body under the thumb of the Belgian provincial governor) in 1947, then moved up to the Katanga provincial council...
...Conference in Brussels to discuss a future independent Congo. It was there that his colleagues first began to notice the array of white advisers who were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga's powerful white settler group; they, like Tshombe. had a large stake in an independent, or at least partially autonomous, Katanga...
When the Congo got its independence last year, the portfolio of 18% of Union Minière stock, once "held in trust for the Congolese people" by the Congo's Belgian colonial administration, was supposed to be handed over to the new central government; somehow the transfer never occurred. Once Katanga declared itself independent, all the payments flowed into the National Bank of Katanga; Union Minière shrugs and says it was forced by Tshombe's government to hand over the money...
...toughest of the breed can now be seen sipping beer nightly in a seedy, side-street club in Brussels known as Les Amities Katangaises, which has become a refuge for former Belgian mercenaries deported from the Congo. Hardened professionals, they are called les affreux-the horrible ones. Under a two-year contract to Tshombe. they were paid an average salary of $300 a month, were given a month's holiday in Europe after a year's service. Two-thirds of their monthly salary was deposited in Belgian francs in a Brussels bank. Their reasons for joining Tshombe...