The Assassination of Lumumba,9781859844106

The Assassination of Lumumba

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ISBN13: 9781859844106
ISBN10: 1859844103
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-12-17
Publisher(s): Verso
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Summary

Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo and a pioneer of African Unity, was assassinated on 17 January 1961. His crime had been to defy the Belgian Government which sought to maintain a covert imperialist hand over the country even after independence was finally won in June 1960. Ludo De Witte reveals the appalling mass of lies that have surrounded the murder. Making use of official sources and government testimony, he uncovers a network of complicity spreading from the Belgian government to the United Nations and the CIA. This book, already translated into four languages, prompted the Belgian parliament to establish an official commission of inquiry into Lumumba's assassination. In his afterword to this new edition De Witte discusses its findings.

Author Biography

Ludo De Witte is a sociologist and a writer. He is author of the Dutch work Crisis in Kongo and has researched two broadcast television documentaries on Patrice Lumumba.

Table of Contents

Translators' note ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface to the English-language edition xiii
Introduction xix
Map of the Congo in 1960
xxv
Who's Who on 17 January 1961 xxvi
The International Actors xxviii
Preparing the Gallows
1(26)
A ``nigger'' upstart (30 June 1960)
Belgian troops and the Blue Berets in Katanga (July-August 1960)
The elimination of Lumumba's government (August-September 1960)
In the steps of the CIA: Operation Barracuda
United Against ``Satan''
27(19)
Mobutu's appearance on the political scene
The copper state, an ``oasis of peace''
The offended King Baudouin
The Belgian government
The Death Cell
46(21)
d'Aspremont Lynden and Loos in Africa
Lumumba delivered to Mobutu by the UN (2 December 1960)
Camp Hardy at Thysville
The Belgians wait in Katanga
Tshombe saved again by the UN
The Green Light from Brussels
67(26)
Colonel Vandewalle's new mission
Patrice Lumumba must die
Mutiny in Thysville, panic in Leopoldville and Brussels (12-14 January 1961)
Bakwanga or Elisabethville? (14-17 January 1961)
d'Aspremont Lynden orders Lumumba's transfer to Katanga (16 January 1961)
Lumumba's Last Day
93(32)
From Thysville to Lukala, then to Moanda
From Moanda to Elisabethville in the DC-4
Arrival in Katanga
At the Brouwez house
``No blood on our hands''
Tshombe celebrates
Back at the Brouwez house
Lumumba's last hour
Operation ``Cover-up''
125(28)
Anxiety or celebration?
Masquerade in Katanga
``No blood on our hands'' (encore)
Masquerade in Brussels and New York
To the depths of hell
The world is informed
A River of Blood
153(12)
The martyrdom of Jean-Pierre Finant at Bakwanga (9 February 1961)
Cover-up in New York and Brussels
The price of blood
Colonel Vandewalle and Leopold II
Danse Macabre in Gbadolite
165(19)
Guy Weber's confession
Danse macabre in Gbadolite (1985)
Lumumba's nationalism: a provisional evaluation
Conclusion: Lumumba's political testament 184(2)
Afterword to the Paperback Edition 186(2)
Notes 188(18)
Bibliography 206(7)
Chronology 213(4)
Index 217

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