The Assassination of Lumumba. (Good Books Lately).The Assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of Lumumba By Ludo De Witte Ludo De Witte 1956 is a Belgian historian famous for uncovering murder mystery of Patrice Lumumba. Works
n. pl. ver·sos 1. A left-hand page of a book or the reverse side of a leaf, as opposed to the recto. 2. The back of a coin or medal. . 240 pages. $27. Patrice Lumumba, the first premier of the Replublic of Congo, was assassinated in January 1961. Then his body was exhumed Exhumed may refer to:
, and his bones were ground up and scattered. There was not even a corpse to rally around. But forty years later, the matter of the Republic of Congo's first prime minister still won't die--due in significant part to this book by Belgian sociologist Ludo De Witte. Lumumba earned the wrath of the West for refusing to accept the secession of Katanga, the copper-producing province led by Moise Tshombe, whom then-U.N. special assistant for the Congo Ralph Bunche referred to as "a puppet maneuvered by the Belgians." This short, impassioned, intensely researched book--De Witte apparently consulted 8,000 U.N. telegrams--casts U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, who lost his own life in a mysterious plane crash while trying to negotiate an end to the Congo conflict, in a somewhat less heroic light than usual. |
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