The Assassination of LumumbaVerso Books, 2022 M10 25 - 256 pages The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba’s personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics. |
Contents
Lumumbas government AugustSeptember 1960 In the steps | |
Mobutus appearance on the political scene The copper state | |
THE DEATH CELL | |
THE GREEN LIGHT FROM BRUSSELS | |
Colonel Vandewalles new mission Patrice Lumumba must die | |
January 1961 Bakwanga or Elisabethville? 1417 January 1961 | |
dAspremont Lynden orders Lumumbas transfer to Katanga | |
LUMUMBAS LAST | |
OPERATION COVERUP | |
A RIVER OF BLOOD | |
1961 Coverup in New York and Brussels The price of blood | |
Bibliography | |
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18 January adviser African Affairs airport army arrival August Bakwanga Baluba Bartelous Belext Brussels Belgian government Belgian officers Belgium Blue Berets Bomboko Brassinne Brassinne and Kestergat Brazza Brazzaville Brouwez house Bureau Conseil Captain Gat Colonel Vandewalle colonial Commissioner Congo crisis Congolese Congolese government Dayal December Dupret E’ville Elisabethville Enquête Eyskens February Force Publique forces Foreign Ministry archives former prime minister Gendarmerie government’s Hammarskjöld ibid independence July Kalonji Kasa Vubu Katanga Katangan ministers Kazadi La Libre Belgique Lahaye later Léo Léopoldville letter Lierde Loos Luano Lumumba’s death Lumumba’s government Lumumba’s transfer military Minaf minister’s Mobutu Moïse Tshombe Mpolo and Okito Munongo nationalist leaders Nendaka neo-colonial October Patrice Lumumba political President prisoners quoted regime secession Security Council sent September 1960 Soete soldiers South Kasai Standaard Stanleyville telegram testimony Thysville Tignée troops Tshombe Tshombe’s tué United Nations United Nations archives Vanden Bloock Vandewalle Verdickt Verscheure Vubu’s Weber