How Lumumba's Widow Protested Bare- Chested Against The Assassination Of Her Husband

Pauline, the wife of Lumumba, was walking through the streets with her bare chest, protesting against the brutal assassination of her husband.

If I interpret rightly, the colonial era was one of the most brutal historical times for Western European countries to unleash all kinds of cruelties and oppression on African countries just to sustain the European economy. Thus,. Many European countries, including Belgium, adopted a brutal reign in Congo, a country they took over as their personal property.

Congo, the Belgian colony, was under colonial rule from 1908 until independence on June 30, 1960. Fifty-two years of colonization weren't enough for the parasitic country in which the economy was run by the rich resources of Congo, thus, didn't take the independence likely. 

That's when the plot to assassinate the newly sworn Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, began. The plan of reprisals against the disgraced politician was prepared at the highest levels of power; even the Belgian king, Baudouin I, knew about the preparation of the murder.

  

Earlier, in the course of previous investigations, it was found that the CIA was also engaged in preparing for the elimination of Lumumba, and US President Dwight Eisenhower allegedly gave the order to poison the ousted prime minister. 

 

After the assassination of Lumumba on January 17, 1961, together with the bodies of Okito and the Minister of Youth and Sports Maurice Mpolo, nobody had the idea that their bodies would be taken out of their new graves in Kasenga. A definitive solution was planned over the next two days.

 

Early in the afternoon of January 21, two Europeans in uniform and a few black assistants left for Kasenga in a lorry belonging to the public works department, containing road signs, geometrical instruments, two demijohns filled with sulphuric acid, an empty 200-liter petrol barrel, and a hacksaw.

 

According to Brassinne, all the equipment was provided by the public works department, and Verscheure and Belina also confirmed that the sulphuric acid came from the Union Miniere.

 

On their arrival, they unloaded the road signs and theodolite to make passers-by think that they were doing a land survey. But they couldn't find the grave and had to stop searching at nightfall.

 

Not until the evening of the next day did they find the grave and start their lugubrious task. The corpses were dug up, cut into pieces with knives and the hacksaw, then thrown into the barrel of sulphuric acid.

 

A group photo of the Lumumba family

The operation took hours and ended the next morning, on January 23. At first, the two Belgians dismembering the bodies wore masks over their mouths, but took them off when they became uncomfortable.

 

Their only protection against the stench was whiskey, so according to Brassinne, they got drunk. One of the black assistants spilled the acid on his foot and burned him badly.

 

LUMUMBA'S ASSASSINATION: Sons not satisfied with Belgium's apology

Patrice LUMUMBA


On January 17, 1961,  Patrice Lumumba, the first elected Prime Minister of Congo, was murdered. The circumstances leading to his death remained a mystery until forty years later, when the secret started unfolding. 


Fresh scrutiny and those around at the time have revealed that Belgium, the Congo's colonial masters, were behind his assassination.

After the election in June 1960, Lumumba's National Congolese Movement won and emerged as the first Prime Minister of Congo. After the independence celebration of June 30th, Belgium's hostility to Lumumba deepened. Lumumba denounced the harshness, brutalities, and indignities suffered by the Congolese under Belgian colonial rule.

A strong friend of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Lumumba, made a similar statement to Nkrumah. "You must have strong and visible powers". Lumumba expelled all the Belgian diplomats and called on the United Nations to defend the newly independent state. 

The action affected Belgians to the extent that the king was very angry with Lumumba. The British Foreign Office requested the elimination of Lumumba. The statement read, "I see only two possible solutions to the problem. The first is a simple one: the removal of Lumumba from the scene and killing him.

Almost fifty years after his assassination, the sons of the Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba are seeking war crime charges against twelve Belgians for their involvement in their father's assassination. 

His youngest son, Guy Lumumba, told reporters, "We are targeting the assassins. In Belgium, there are twelve of them still alive, and we want them to answer for their pathetic acts before justice. The twelve Belgians were in the province of Katanga when Lumumba was killed.

As if the spirit of Lumumba were taking revenge, it was reported that one of the twin brothers involved in his killing had gone insane. Lumumba's family lawyer Christophe Marchand said the sons will file a charge against the yet to be named twelve of war crimes in a Brussels criminal court in October. 

Even though Belgium has since apologized to its former colony, no legal action has been taken afterward.

ERYKAH BADU'S NUDENESS IN PUBLIC FOR VIDEO CLIP

Erykah Badu


Every musician and the public know that sex video clips for music sell. Competition in music these days is so strong that every artist wants to come out and produce something that no one else has ever done in the field of music.


Unfortunately, a respected singer like Erykah Badu, choice to make her video clip to promote or sell her music has rather given her disrespect or hatred in the eyes of the general public.


On the CNN American version, I watched the video clip over and over. The shocking part is how someone who is not insane or having no mental disorder could walk in public, a famous place for tourists where the assassination of President Kennedy took place decades ago, and shed off her clothes to be nude in the eyes of the public, then after a gunshot, she fell like someone playing a role in a film? All this is for a music video clip.

I think there are many ways Erykah should have chosen to make this clip. I don't know what was in her mind before she shot that clip. My question is, "Does she feel sorry for the assassination of President Kennedy, or does she feel good about it That was why she imitated his assassination.

Whatever reason Erykah did this for, I wish she could apologize to the Americans because, in my opinion, that was a total disrespect to the Kennedy family and the whole Americans.