Patrice Lumumba speaks during the Senate meeting that pits him against Justin Bomboko in Leopoldville, DRC, on 10 September 1960. Hope to get justice seemed to awaken for the family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba, when they Tuesday expressed it, as a Belgian court weighed prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing. Lumumba’s relatives have pushed for the past 15 years for what they said was a long-overdue legal reckoning over the complicity of Belgian officials in his murder. Said Yema Lumumba, 33, a grand-daughter of…
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