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I prefer to die with my head unbowed

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Shaun Usher
Jan 17, 2021
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Prime Minister Lumumba in 1960. Photo: Wikimedia

Exactly 60 years ago, on 17th January 1961, the first prime minister of the newly-independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, 35-year-old Patrice Lumumba, was tortured and then assassinated by members of the Belgian Secret Service. Four months earlier, he had been ousted in a coup that was led by Joseph-…

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