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'''Lilian Burton''' was a white settler who was killed by [[United National Independence Party|UNIP]] activists who were demonstrating against the colonial regime in [[Ndola]]. <ref>[http://zambianeye.com/archives/10324 Zambian Eye, HEROES AND UNITY DAYS: BUT NO HEROES, NO UNITY!, 1 July 2013]</ref> This was during the [[Cha Cha Cha Uprising]] in 1960.<ref>The Killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and Black and White Nationalisms in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960s by Walima T. Kalusaa, pages 63-77</ref>

On Sunday 8 May 1960, Mrs Burton was driving her daughters home in [[Kaniki Plots]] in a Morris Traveller car on [[Mufurila Road]]<ref name=brockwell/> when she was forced to stop by a mob. The windows of her car were smashed and petrol splashed over her and ignited. Her spaniel was burnt alive but Mrs Burton and her daughters, aged 12 and 5, escaped from the car to be brutally assaulted. They were found by a Forest Ranger and taken to [[Ndola Hospital]] where she later died of the burns. She passed away at about 3am on 16 May 1960.<ref name=brockwell>[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/policejl38&div=13&id=&page= The Burton Atrocity by DM Brockwell]</ref>