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Article: THE ASSASSINATION OF LUMUMBA.(Review)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Ludo de Witte
[pound]19 Verso ISBN 1-85984-618-1
When this book was first published in Dutch in September 1999, such was the public outcry over its contents that the Belgian parliament swiftly set up a Commission of Inquiry into the events it describes. The involvement of Belgium and the US governments in the brutal murder of Patrice Lumumba, the father of Congolese independence, has long been an open secret.
But author Ludo de Witte has succeeded in uncovering the evidence, to present a compelling case that Lumumba's murder was on the instructions of the highest officials of the former colonialists.
Belgium had recognised that its ...