Patrice Lumumba Must Not be Forgotten
Forty-five years ago this day, this man in the picture, then premier of the newly-created African republic of Congo, was tied and dragged by his captors and killers to be killed in a gruesome way.
Today, I say
SHAME
to Belgium for having killed this man, andSHAME
to the US for having had a President under the name of Eisenhower who ordered his death because of the distorted view that the man, fighting for his country, was a Communist.Like I referred to in an earlier post, Lumumba's assassination is symptomatic of the growing desire by the US to utilise assassinations as a continuation of politics by other means. JFK in 1963, Robert Kennedy; (I strongly believe) then-UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in 1961; Martin Luther King in 1968. The fact that these assassinations took place in the decade between 1960 and 1970 is no co-incidence!
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posted by Emmanuel.K.Bensah II @ 3:41 pm
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Didn't know anyhting about that, thanks for educating me.
I appreciate ur humility:-) thanks...I'm impressed that a highly-educated person like urself should be thanking me...but cheers anyway;-))
Steph, no not at all!! Besides, I welcome any sort of criticism that veers towards constructiveness:-) Haven't cruised ur way in a while, so wil be there today (Friday)...these intermittent posts of mine are not what I had envisaged, but I needed to show I am still alive, as it were:-)
will respond to the comment from the particular post...thanks for visiting;-)
great blog you've got here! looked into mr lumumba's life after reading "King Leopold's Ghosts" (i hope the title's correct) some years ago. gave me some understanding of the region and it's terrible history. The US and Belgium have a lot of explaining to do. as if.
the great revolutionary will never be forgotten
opportunistic goal by Taiwo? you wan test badboy skills?
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