Get Familiar: 56 years ago today, Congolese liberator, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated.

[Remote]

My Old prof, said he stole millions of dollars

In 6 months?

 

[loyola llothta]

In 6 months?

Before they go out and kill you, white people usually spread propaganda for the confuse and dull to repeat



How they did him show how much power they have and still do .....

 

[Originalman]

Belgians also had a hand in killing him. In fact a Belgian by the name of Gerrard Soete who was in charge of the squad that carried out the execution saved two of Lumumba's teeth after his body was dissolved in acid.

Yep I saw that in a documentary and that dude thought the shyt was funny when he was re-telling the story.

 

[Skrt Angle]

Last of the African leaders.

These puppets all know the game better than the puppeteers..

 

[Easy-E]

Damn. I love hearing this man speak.

Now, we got Charles Barkley whitewashing Black History.

 

[loyola llothta]

Damn. I love hearing this man speak.

Now, we got Charles Barkley whitewashing Black History.

- In 1964 Malcolm X declared Patrice Lumumba "The greatest black man who ever walked the African continent "

 

[loyola llothta]

Little facts

Lumumba was sent first on December 3, to Thysville military barracks Camp Hardy, 150 km (about 100 miles) from Léopoldville.
In the morning of January 13, 1961, discipline at Camp Hardy faltered. Soldiers refused to work unless they were paid.

Some supported Lumumba's release, while others thought he was dangerous. Kasu-Vabu, Mobutu, Foreign Minister Justin Marie Bomboko, and Head of Security Services Victor Nendaka Bika personally arrived at the camp and negotiated with the troops.

Conflict was avoided, but it became apparent that holding a controversial prisoner in the camp was too great a risk.
Harold d'Aspremont Lynden, the former Belgian Minister of the Colonies, ordered that Lumumba, Mpolo, and Okito be taken to the State of Katanga.

Lumumba was forcibly restrained on the flight to Elizabethville on January 17,1961.
On arrival, he and his associates were conducted under arrest to the Brouwez House where they were brutally beaten and tortured by Katangan and Belgian officers, while President Tshombe and his cabinet decided what to do with him.

Later that night, Lumumba was driven to an isolated spot where three firing squads had been assembled.

The Belegian Commission into Lumumba's death later found that the execution was carried out by katanga's authorities. However, declassified documents revealed that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Lumumba and may have carried out those actions with the help of the Katanga authorities.

It reported that president Tshombe and two other ministers were present, with four Belgian officers under the command of Katangan authorities. Lumumba and his two political associates were lined up against a tree and shot one at a time.

 

[loyola llothta]

The Belgians and their counterparts wished to get rid of the bodies, and did so by digging up and dismembering the corpses, then dissolving them in sulfuric acid while the bones were ground and scattered.

No statement on Lumumba’s death was released until three weeks later, despite rumours that he was dead. His death was formally announced over Katangan radio on February 13, when it was alleged that he was killed by enraged villagers three days after escaping from Kolatey prison farm.

 

[loyola llothta]

After the announcement of Lumumba's death, street protests were organised in several European countries; in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, protesters sacked the Belgian embassy and confronted the police, and in London, a crowd marched from Trafalgar Square to the Belgian embassy, where a letter of protest was delivered and where protesters clashed with police.

In New York City, a demonstration at the United Nations Security Council turned violent and spilled over into the streets.

 

[Sukairain]

Should have wiped out US and Belgian politicians in retaliation

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Belgians also had a hand in killing him. In fact a Belgian by the name of Gerrard Soete who was in charge of the squad that carried out the execution saved two of Lumumba's teeth after his body was dissolved in acid.

special place in hell for those types

 

[Remote]

And in face of this example (and countless others) Mike Wallace had the nerve to accuse Nigeria of being the most corrupt country on earth to Louis Farrakhan....prompting Farrakhan's famous scolding in 2005

*edit - I meant to quote @loyola llothta but this posts aren't quotable.

 

[AZBeauty]

I've never heard of him before. I'm going to go on amazon and see if I can find any books on him. Just going off the links posted here, he is a black man I should know. Props for the thread.

+10

 

[Self_Born7]

Him and brother Malcolm was headed to the UN to put the US and other cac nations on blast... and it was one of his own black political rivals who set him up to be killed.... heard they put him in a vat of acid too..
one of the really good african brothers who we never hear about...

 

[loyola llothta]

TRIBUTES

In 1966 Patrice Lumumba's image was rehabilitated by the Mobutu regime and he was proclaimed a national hero and martyr in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By a presidential decree, the Brouwez House, site of Lumumba's brutal torture on the night of his murder, became a place of pilgrimage in the Congo.

A major transportation artery in Kinshasa, the Lumumba Boulevard, is named in his honour. On the tower's plaza, the first Kabila regime erected a tall statue of Lumumba with a raised hand, greeting people coming from N'djili Airport

In Bamako, Mali, Patrice Lumumba Square is a large central plaza with a life-size statue of Lumumba, a park with fountains, and a flag display.

Streets were also named after him in:
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia,
Budapest,
Hungary (between 1961 and 1990);
Surabaya, Medan & Padangsidempuan Indonesia;
Gaborone, Botswana; Belgrade and Niš, Serbia;
Sofia and Plovdiv,
Bulgaria (until 1991-2);
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia;
Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea;
Tehran, Iran;
Algiers, Algeria (Rue Patrice Lumumba);
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica);
Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw (1961–1993), Poland; Kiev (until 2016 when in order to comply with decommunization laws this street was renamed after Pope John Paul II),
Donetsk, Ukraine;
Perm, Russia;

Rabat, Morocco;
Maputo, Mozambique;
Enugu, Nigeria;
Leipzig, Germany;
Lusaka, Zambia ("Lumumba Street");
Kampala, Uganda and Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania ("Lumumba Avenue");
Tunis, Tunisia;
Fort-de-France, Martinique;
Montpellier, France;
Accra, Ghana;
Antananarivo, Madagascar;
Rotterdam, Netherlands;
Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan;
Koper, Nabrežje Patricea Lumumbe now renamed to Belveder, Slovenia, South Africa, Namibia, (Patrice Lumumba St.) in Tehran.