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Post by lagatta on Jul 1, 2018 11:00:54 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 1, 2018 11:57:36 GMT
Charleroi also has a rue Patrice Lumumba.
Of course, he was less controversial in France, so there are cities with a street honouring him, notably Montpellier but also a number of towns in the suburbs of Paris.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 2, 2018 20:44:17 GMT
I used to work 300 m from Matonge. A fun and living area.
Maybe we could remove some Léopold I squares and switch them to Congolese names. But at least our history books don't hide anymore the enormous casualties that came during - at least the first part - of colonisation.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 16, 2020 13:25:09 GMT
There is an article in our local newspaper today about Lumumba's Remains finally to go home. " A Belgian court has ruled that the remains of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, kept by Belgium after his murder, can be returned to his family. The Magistrate ruled last week that Lamumba's tooth could be given back, ruling in favour of the Late statesman's daughter, Juliana Lamumba (64), who in June called on the Belgium state to return her father's remains 'To the land of his ancestors'.
In a 1999 book by sociologist Ludo de Witte, Belgian police commissioner Gerard Soete said that in disposing of Lamumba's corpse he had sawn it into pieces and dissolved it in sulphuric acid. Soete said that an officer had wrung two teeth from Lamumba's jaw, and kept them. In 2016, one tooth was seized by authorities as part of an investigation into Lamumba's death.
In 2002, accounts of Belgiums involvement in Lamumba's murder led Belgium to issue an apology. Lamumba, who's leadership lasted less than three months, was overthrown and given up to Belgium-backed separatist militias who executed him in 1961."
That was a direct quote from the newspaper. It made me think, where was I when all this was going on? Well, I was in high school until 1963 and would have never heard of Lamumba as there was no TV and all we ever heard on the radio was pop songs.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 16, 2020 13:30:32 GMT
I am not an expert on that, but i heard that Lumumba was a great man. But lots of people say that of people who die young and have not been given time to show their dark side. Ah. Becoming a cynical.
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