TORONTO DEFEND CONGOLESE
TORONTO -—- The Belgian-American-British-inspired military intervention in the Congo has had a powerful effect upon African students at the University of Toronto, In a hard-hitting, welldocumented statement featured in the January 15 issue of the student newspaper Varsity, and reprinted in part in the mass-circula-= ted daily Globe and Mail, the "Committee on the Congo" set up by the African Students! Union of Toronto exposes the role of the imperialist powers in that country, and reveals the real motives behind the so-called "humanitarian rescue operation."
ne real objective of the use of paratroops,” the statement says, “was to help suppress a popular uprising of the Congolese people against an un-elected puppet government in Leopoldville, kept in power by foreign interests,' .
‘The 4,000-word statement concludes: "The African Students! Union of Toronto therefore declares that the "humanitarian mission! was ignobly inspired, wrong in essence and premature in execution; that it nullified hopeful efforts already underway to free the hostages and precipitated the death of an estimated 190 whites by the rebels and 2,000 Congolese by the white mercenaries, In the light of the events presented here, we have no alternative but to cate-~ gorically condemn the US-Belgian mercy mission as a pretext calculated to inflict a military defeat on the revolutionary movement in the hope of propping up a puppet regime in Leopoldville. We therofore. reject the barbarous idea of a military solution of an essen= tially politico-economic problem. We reject all the miracle solutions worked out in Washington and Brussels -~ solutions motivated by economic interests end in contradiction with the aspirations of the Congolese people. We opt for a Congolese solution of the Congolese problem under the aegis of, and based on, the constructive resolutions of the 0.A.U. [Organization of African Unity], To this end we demand a cease-fire, the immediate recall of all Belgian and American military personnel, as well as the withdrawal of their transport planes and bombers, white mercenaries and Cuban exile pilots.
. "Finally, we call on all foreign powers to respect the right of the Congolese to full self-determination and cooperate with the 0O.A.U. for the implementation of the recent resolutions of the Security Council,"
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