Belgium returns Patrice Lumumba’s tooth to family 61 years after his murder | Patrice Lumumba | The Guardian

[Toyin Falola]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/belgium-returns-patrice-lumumba-tooth-congolese-independence


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[Victor Okafor]

Just like that, eh! No invocation of the International Criminal Court? What should be done with "the Belgian police commissioner Gerard Soete [who in 2000] confessed that he had dismembered Lumumba’s body and dissolved the remains in acid?" Award him a Nobel Peace Prize for "graciously" making it possible for us to witness a return of  "a gold tooth" from the body of his victim? Alas, for his butchery, Belgium has already handsomely rewarded him. Yes, he was able to rise to the position of police commissioner! 

Patrice Lumumba's heart-wrenching and cold-blooded butchery-murder is one of history's most infamous illustrative examples of how certain powers (aided, unfortunately, by local African collaborators) work towards their “we must keep Africa down” agenda. Contemporary Africans who, in a variety of ways, including intellectual servitude, also participate as tools and spies of these Western and Eastern anti-African agencies and their ideological pursuits, are no less culpable.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:28 AM Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/belgium-returns-patrice-lumumba-tooth-congolese-independence


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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

When Western  countries commit 

atrocities, including genocides, they 

occasionally confess to making 

“mistakes.” Vietnam was a “mistake”

 and so, too, Iraq, Afghanistan and all 

the rest. So the gruesome assassination

of Lumumba was presumably  just 

another “mistake.” Perpetrators of 

“mistakes” are  not punished by the 

ICC or any other body. Moreover,  

the  gullible continue to see the

purveyors of  these “mistakes” as 

beacons and models of human rights,

sing their praises, and make all sorts 

of excuses  on their behalf. 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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