The Murder Of Patrice Lumumba

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The first legally elected prime minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed by Congolese troops under the order of Belgium army officers.
Patrice Lumumba, the independence leader, was arrested, tortured and executed just months after becoming the first democratically prime minister of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1960.
A university professor, Philippe Raxhon, told the Lumumba commission that “there is no doubt that Lumumba was executed".
Lumumba was born on July 2, 1925, in the province of Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), in the village near him, Lumumba was able to hone his love for literature and learning by attending missionary school and borrowing books there to read. After having establishing

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