The Assassination of Lumumba

The Assassination of Lumumba
by Ludo De Witte

The Assassination of Lumumba
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Author: Ludo De Witte
Translator: Renee Fenby
Translator: Ann Wright
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01
ISBN: 1859844103
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Verso

Summary of The Assassination of Lumumba

In January 1961, seven months after Congo won independence from Belgium, the country's first elected head of state, Patrice Lumumba, was killed because of fears that he would nationalize Belgian corporate interests in Congo.

Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo and a pioneer of African Unity, was assassinated on 17 January 1961. His crime had been to defy the Belgian Government which sought to maintain a covert imperialist hand over the country even after independence was finally won in June 1960. Ludo De Witte reveals the appalling mass of lies that have surrounded the murder. Making use of official sources and government testimony, he uncovers a network of complicity spreading from the Belgian government to the United Nations and the CIA. This book, already translated into four languages, prompted the Belgian parliament to establish an official commission of inquiry into Lumumba's assassination. In his afterword to this new edition De Witte discusses its findings.

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