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Belgium returns Congo first elected leader Lumumba's remains to family

Belgium returns Congo first elected leader Lumumba's remains to family
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Belgium returns Lumumba tooth to family

Belgium returns Lumumba tooth to family
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Belgium returns tooth of Congo independence leader Lumumba to his family

Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of the DRC in 1960 but was overthrown and assassinated in move blamed on Belgium

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Belgium to return Lumumba's gold tooth in bid to atone for colonial crimes

The Belgian government is to return a tooth of Patrice Lumumba to his family this week, hoping to draw a line under one of the most brutal and shameful episodes in the country’s bloody exploitation of central Africa. The relic is all that remains of Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), under its earlier name the Republic of Congo, and an icon of the struggle against colonialism in Africa, who was murdered by separatists and Belgian mercenaries in 1961. His killers dissolved his remains in acid, though some kept teeth as macabre mementoes. Lumumba’s son

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Patrice Lumumba: Belgium to return remains of assassinated Congo leader | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

Patrice Lumumba was assassinated over 60 years ago as Belgian officials looked on. The repatriation of the remains of Congo's first democratically elected leader comes as Belgium seeks to confront its dark colonial past.

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