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The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback, New edition)
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The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback, New edition)
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Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and
a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.
Democratically elected to lead the Mouvement National Congolais,
the party he founded in 1958, Lumumba was at the centre of the
country's growing popular defiance of the colonial rule of
oppression imposed by Belgium. When, in June 1960, independence was
finally won, his unscheduled speech at the official ceremonies in
Kinshasa received a standing ovation and made him a hero to
millions. Always a threat to those who sought to maintain a covert
imperialist hand over the country, however, he became within months
the victim of an insidious plot and was arrested and subsequently
tortured and executed.
This book unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and
betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the assassination since
it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as
well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the
time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from
the Belgian government to the CIA. Chilling official memos which
detail 'liquidation' and 'threats to national interests' are
analysed alongside macabre tales of the destruction of evidence,
putting Patrice Lumumba's personal strength and his dignified quest
for African unity in stark contrast with one of the murkiest
episodes in twentieth-century politics.
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