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The funeral was held on the 62nd anniversary of the Central African country’s independence. On that day, Lumumba gave a fiery speech on Belgium’s 75-year colonization of the Congo.
Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Lumumba, has upset the West with revelations to Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
His reign lasted only three months before he was overthrown and killed. Supporters and some historians accuse the CIA of involvement.
A Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Lumumba’s assassination concluded in 2002 that Belgium was “morally responsible” for his death.
The body was never found. His only remaining tooth was apparently taken by a Belgian policeman, Gerard Soete, who claimed that he dissolved much of the body in acid and burned the rest.
Belgium, whose king Philippe visited the Congo for the first time this month, handed over the tooth to Lumumba’s family on June 20.
“Your return home, the honors you receive here, is a page of history that you continue to write,” one of his granddaughters said in a letter to Lumumba she read at the funeral.
“With you, Africa is writing its own history today,” she said.
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