After sixty-five years, the assassination of PatriceLumumba is no longer being treated as an unfortunate episode wrapped in diplomatic language ... The Lumumba family has spent years dismantling that framework.
Yet, if we strip away the rhetoric, the pattern is stark ... The paradox is brutal ... History’s verdict is unrelenting ... Kwame Nkrumah, PatriceLumumba and Thomas Sankara were toppled not for tyranny but for the audacity to imagine Africa free ... ....
PatriceLumumba was assassinated more than 60 years ago, but his killing still hangs over the Democratic Republic of the Congo... Unquestionable betrayal … troops capturing Patrice Lumumba before his detention ... Lumumba was a Congolese.
The dismal motion comes only weeks after Lumumba’s legal team filed a different motion for dismissal ... Lumumba’s attorneys are also seeking documentation regarding an FBI agent’s grand jury testimony.
A Belgian court has ruled that a former diplomat can stand trial in connection with the killing in 1961 of PatriceLumumba, Congo's first prime minister ... Lumumba was appointed prime minister after Congo gained independence in June 1960.