Belgium today handed over a tooth to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Patrice Lumumba’s family as the only mortal remains of the assasinated Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. This occurred 60 years after the death of the great statesman and pan Afriacanist.
Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, was executed only a few months after taking office. His body was dismembered and his remains were dissolved in acid.
A Belgian police officer who oversaw Lumumba’s body’s destruction later admitted to taking a tooth from Lumumba as a keepsake. Lumumba’s family and Congolese government attended the event in Belgium.
The tooth was placed in a box before being placed in a casket and sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for burial.
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