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THE SACRIFISE OF TRUE AFRICAN LEADER, PATRICE EMERY LUMUMBA
THE SACRIFISE OF TRUE AFRICAN LEADER, PATRICE EMERY LUMUMBA
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Aug 12, 2012
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Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup orchestrated by Belgium and supported by the United States. He was subsequently imprisoned and executed by firing squad, an act that was committed with the assistance of the governments of Belgium and the United States, for which only the Belgian government officially apologized in 2002
