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The murder of Lumumba
17 Jan 1961 — Congo’s first elected premier, handed to his Katangese enemies with Belgian and CIA connivance, is shot and his body destroyed. Belgium apologized in 2001. A founding crime of the post-colonial age. Remember him.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — The Congo Crisis in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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