An elderly shopkeeper in Elisabethville ignoredor perhaps did not heara Congolese soldier's order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week. Angrily, the soldier hoisted his rifle and shot him in the back. As the man lay groaning on the pavement, Congolese troops shoved away a doctor who tried to save his life.
The cold-blooded killing pointed up the grim fact that nearly three months after United Nations troops crushed Secessionist Moise Tshombe's regime and placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central...
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