LUMUMBA’S SPEECH THAT LED TO HIS ASSAS_SINATION

LUMUMBA’S SPEECH THAT LED TO HIS ASSAS_SINATION

LUMUMBA’S SPEECH THAT LED TO HIS ASSAS_SINATION

“F!ghters of independence we’re victorious today. I salute you in the name of the Congolese government. To you all my friends, who have fought without respite at our sides, I ask you to make of today, this 30th June 1960, an illustration day that will be etched forever on your hearts. A date whose significance you will pass on with pride to your children, who in their turn, will pass on to their sons and grandsons, the glorious story of the struggle for our liberty. “ — Patrice Lumumba

“We have known ironies and insults. We have had to submit to beatings, morning, noon and night because we were negros. A black was always addressed in the familiar form, certainly not as a friend, but because the respectful form of address was reserved for the whites. We whose bodies have suffered under the colonial oppression, we say to you, it is all over now.” — Patrice Lumumba

On the 17th of January 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assas_sinated with the assistance of The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)