The "Values‑Preaching West" 65 Years Ago
"In August 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorised the CIA to eliminate Lumumba. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb personally carried poison to the Congo to place in his food or on his toothbrush.
His closest ally, Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko, became the CIA’s principal agent — paid to betray the very man who trusted him.
On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was tortured, beaten, humiliated, and handed over to a Belgian-backed firing squad.
Belgian officers cut his body into pieces [such a stark reminder of MBS's methods, isn't it!] and dissolved his remains in sulphuric acid. Patrice Lumumba has no grave. No tomb. No resting place.
Before they killed him, they forced him to swallow the paper containing his Independence Day speech — as if they could erase his words by forcing him to eat them.
The CIA then installed Mobutu, who ruled the Congo for 32 years while foreign powers looted its diamonds, gold, copper, and cobalt as millions suffered in poverty.
Years later, CIA Director Allen Dulles admitted: 'I think we overrated the Soviet danger in the Congo.' They destroyed a man. They destroyed a nation. And they did it over a lie.
Patrice Lumumba dreamed of an Africa that controlled its own wealth, wrote its own destiny, and bowed to no empire. They killed the man, but they could not kill the dream."
The Congo is one of the African countries that has been most brutally plundered by the Global North which continues to this very day!
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