Ephemeral Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925. His life was cut brutally short by a CIA-backed operation on 17 January 1961.

The “his” referred to Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. His crime was not communism or radicalism, it was believing that Congo, which attained its independence from ...

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Lumumba fought for the Congo's independence On June 30, 1960, Patrice Lumumba freed the Congo from Belgian colonial rule and became the country's first prime minister.