The funeral was held on the 62nd anniversary of the central African country’s independence. The family of Democratic Republic of Congo’s murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba has buried his only known remains, a tooth, in the capital Kinshasa, 61 years after his death at the hands of Belgian-backed secessionist rebels. Lumumba was killed by a firing squad on January 16, …
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Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of the DRC after independence from Belgium in 1960. Belgian authorities have handed over a tooth, the only known remains of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, to his family during a ceremony in Brussels. Lumumba became the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister after independence …
