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A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
de Witte, Ludo http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/21/a-revolutionary-speech-patrice-lumumba-and-the-birth-of-the-republic-of-congo/
Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 21/01/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
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