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| Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Patrice Lumumba; Patrice Lumumba; Patrice É Lumumba; Patrice E Lumumba |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ludo de Witte |
| ISBN: | 1859846181 9781859846186 9781859844106 1859844103 |
| OCLC Number: | 46959885 |
| Description: | xxvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Map of the Congo in 1960 -- Who's Who on 17 January 1961 -- The International Actors -- Preparing the Gallows -- A "nigger" upstart (30 June 1960) -- Belgian troops and the Blue Berets in Katanga (July-August 1960) -- The elimination of Lumumba's government (August-September 1960) -- In the steps of the CIA: Operation Barracuda -- United Against "Satan" -- Mobutu's appearance on the political scene -- The copper state, an "oasis of peace" -- The offended King Baudouin -- The Belgian government -- The Death Cell -- d'Aspremont Lynden and Loos in Africa -- Lumumba delivered to Mobutu by the UN (2 December 1960) -- Camp Hardy at Thysville -- The Belgians wait in Katanga -- Tshombe saved again by the UN -- The Green Light From Brussels -- Colonel Vandewalle's new mission -- Patrice Lumumba must die -- Mutiny in Thysville, panic in Leopoldville and Brussels (12-14 January 1961) -- Bakwanga or Elisabethville? (14-17 January 1961) -- d'Aspremont Lynden orders Lumumba's transfer to Katanga (16 January 1961) -- Lumumba's Last Day -- From Thysville to Lukala, then to Moanda -- From Moanda to Elisabethville in the DC-4 -- Arrival in Katanga -- At the Brouwez house -- "No blood on our hands" -- Tshombe celebrates -- Back at the Brouwez house -- Lumumba's last hour -- Operation "Cover-Up" -- Anxiety or celebration? -- Masquerade in Katanga -- "No blood on our hands" (encore) -- Masquerade in Brussels and New York -- To the depths of hell -- The world is informed -- A River of Blood. |
| Other Titles: | Moord op Lumumba. |
| Responsibility: | Ludo de Witte ; translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby. |
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De Witte has assembled a staggering amount of detail to support his allegations of direct government participation in Lumumba's murder. * Washington Post Book World * De Witte has performed an important service in establishing the facts of Lumumba's last days and Belgium's responsibility for what happened. * New York Review of Books * De Witte writes without stylish frills or narrative tricks, but this is a vivid and utterly compelling account of a nation strangled at birth by the West. -- Ronan Bennett * Los Angeles Times * De Witte's book, politically passionate as it is, is an unignorable effort to bring the West face to face with its culpability in this entire sad and sanguinary tale. -- Richard Bernstein * New York Times * One Belgian author has triumphed over decades of official obfuscation: Belgium did collude in Patrice Lumumba's assassination ... It raises questions about Western policy in Africa that will reverberate for decades to come. -- Michela Wrong * Financial Times * One should never underestimate the ruthlessness of British gentlemen cradling endangered shares. -- Neal Ascherson * London Review of Books * Thoroughly researched, passionately written, deeply disturbing. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * Whilst the battle for control over the resources of the Congo (now DR Congo) continues today this important book restores Congolese history and saves it from the official version peddled by those directly implicated in the affair. * New Internationalist * Read more...
