Footage of Patrice Lumumba being arrested by Belgian-backed forces in 1960, just months after he became Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister following independence. The U.S. assassinated him.
Footage of Patrice Lumumba being arrested by Belgian-backed forces in 1960, just months after he became Congo's first democratically elected Prime Minister following independence.
The US and UK, fearing his pan-African vision and refusal to align with the West during the Cold War, supported his removal.
He was assassinated in January 1961. His death remains one of the most consequential political killings in African history
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