London, UK. 17th January 2018. On the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, a protest by African Socialist International and the Patrice Lumumba Coalition opposite the Belgian Embassy remembered the over 10 million Congolese killed since 1998 over theft of Coltan, Cobalt and other minerals to make smart phones, electric cars, etc and demanded an end to Belgian military support for the Kabila regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congo gained independence from Belgium on June 30th 1960 with a democratic government led by Prime Minister
London, UK. 17th January 2018. On the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, a protest by African Socialist International and the Patrice Lumumba Coalition opposite the Belgian Embassy remembered the over 10 million Congolese killed since 1998 over theft of Coltan, Cobalt and other minerals to make smart phones, electric cars, etc and demanded an end to Belgian military support for the Kabila regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congo gained independence from Belgium on June 30th 1960 with a democratic government led by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Within days Belgium was sending forces to back the secession of mineral rich Katanga and after USA and the UN failed to help, Lumumba turned to the USSR who sent planes to transport his troops. Eisenhower feared US companies control of the Congo economy and resources was under threat sent in the CIA to back Congo's army head Josph Mobutu against Lumumba, ordering his elimination and a plot by the CIA and the Belgians aided by MI6, led to the assassination of Lumumba and his aides Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okita by by Katangan and Belgian army officers on 17th January 1961.
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