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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 16, 1963
Europeans Stage Revolt In Katanga Community
JADOTVILLE, Katanga, the Congo —(UPI)— The entire European community of this mining town 80 miles northwest of Elizabethville threatened to burn it to the ground today and return to Europe.
The 4000 Europeans are in revolt following the murder last night of a Belgian worker at the Union Miniere Mining Complex. Daniel Dendieval was kidnapped near the center of the town yesterday afternoon, driven to the National Congolese Army camp 20 miles away and beaten to death with rifle butts by 12 soldiers.
The troops concerned have not been arrested and their motive for the murder was unknown.
More than 500 furious Europeans met at Jadotville's Union Miniere Mine Club today and issued an ultimatum to the Congolese authorities: Either the Congolese troops are withdrawn from Jadotville or all white women and children will be evacuated immediately to Europe and "we will carry out a scorched earth policy."
"It will then be man to man," a spokesman said, "and we will know what to do before we go."
The crowd cheered his words and a woman, with tears rolling down her cheeks, said: "If we don't get protection we will leave and destroy everything we have built up here."
"It is all finished," said an angry European policeman. "Unless the A.N.C. (National Congolese Army) are withdrawn, we are all going back to Belgium."
Many Belgians were already preparing to leave Jadotville with their families to return to Europe.
Jadotville's streets were deserted today and the huge Union Miniere Copper Smelting Plant was closed and silent.
Meanwhile, a United Nations military source said all A.N.C. troops have been ordered to return to Shinkolobwe camp. They will only be allowed into Jadotville to collect food supplies and then only after receiving U.N. permission, he said.
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