Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the - TopicsExpress



          

Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed. theguardian/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:54:57 +0000

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