The Murder of Patrice Lumumba by the Americans, Belgians and British
1961 was a very bad year for Africa. On 17 January of that year, Patrice Lumumba, the legitimate Prime Minister of the Congo, was murdered in cold blood after he had been handed over to the secessionist rebels in Katanga, led by Moise Tshombe.
The villain who handed him over was [the then] Colonel Joseph Desiree Mobutu, who had deposed Lumumba in a coup he mounted on 14 September 1960, with the active assistance of Western conspirators led by the Belgians and the Americans.
Lumumba had invited the United Nations to the Congo to help him stabilise his country after its Belgian-led army, the Force Publique, mutinied a few days after the Congo achieved its independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960. But the UN troops – including many Ghanaians soldiers sent by President Kwame Nkruma...
