Mrs Pauline Lumumba’s grief and anguish over betrayal
Story by Tawheed Yakub
Grief-stricken Mrs Pauline Lumumba, wife of Congo’s first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who was brutally tortured and murdered by a firing Squad led by the Belgian Forces and some of his own people.
After his murder, his wife requested to see his body so that she could properly mourn her husband.
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She never got that opportunity because the body of Patrice was dismembered and dissolved in ACID by the evil people who killed him.
This picture is how the heartbroken widow, Pauline, protested her husband’s murder on the streets of Congo. She walked barefoot and half-naked.
Patrice was just 35 years old when he was killed & Pauline was 23 years old when her husband died in 1961.
She never remarried until she died on December 23, 2015 – 54 years after the death of her beloved husband.
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The Belgians, after years of protests, finally acknowledged this terrible atrocity and recently, the daughter of one of the mercenaries who dismembered and dissolved Lumumba’s body in acid gave back a tooth that had been kept as a souvenir.
That tooth was received by the Congolese government and a full funeral ceremony was conducted. It was returned to the Congo for burial at the memorial site that was originally erected by Mobutu back in 1965.
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