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1961 Storming of the Belgian embassy in Cairo

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jean-mar...@laposte.net

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Apr 5, 2012, 11:55:47 AM4/5/12
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What did actually happen around the storming of the Belgian embassy by
the Egyptian populace in Cairo in the aftermath of the Lumumba
execution back in January 1961 ?

The only picture I remember of was a photograph in Paris Match
showing the widow of Lumumba walking around what looked like ruins of
house suppodes to have hosted the embassy with one or more of her
children (to be verified).

The caption was great and could no longer be printed nowadays due to
would-be anti-racist or anti-incentive to discrimination or "hatred"
laws : Mrs Lumumba becomes African again (she was dressed in typical
African clothes) and savage"

I have no problem to say that I liked the caption when I read it. Out
of dislike towards what Lumumba then represented and as much (if not
more) dislike towards his admirers home : the PSU, Témoignage
Chrétien, France Observateur, left-wing clergy etc...

http://jeanmarielallau.blogspot.com

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Apr 6, 2012, 9:10:01 AM4/6/12
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Vitae forma vocata "jean-mar...@laposte.net"
<jean-mar...@laposte.net> , die Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:55:47 -0700
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in foro be.history(et aliis) vere scripsit quod sequitur:
I don't understand why , being an inhabitant of France , you didn't
use French language to post above stuff., since French is an official
language in Belgium and you posted it in a Belgian newsgroup.

Are you ashamed to use your own language, or do you think that we, the
Belgians who do not have French as mother tongue wouldn't understand
this language?
-In the first case, I do consider this as a funny kind of masochism
(a bas nous!).
-In the second case I think you think that the Belgians who do not
have French as mother tongue are idiots.
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