Belgium Returns Remains of Assassinated Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba but What about Justice?

Tanupriya Singh (Photo: Nationaal Archief) Belgium has returned a gold crowned tooth of Patrice Lumumba to his family. However, activists point out that there has been no accountability or justice for his brutal assassination following a western-backed coup in 1961 Over six decades after his assassination, Belgium has repatriated the mortal remains of Congolese independence…

Why Are We Having a Go at the Statues of Leopold II?

Onno Vandewalle A statue of king Leopold II that was taken down in June. Onno Vandewalle writes about the movement in the country to pull down the statues of Leopold II, and examines the brutal history of colonization and exploitation in the Congo From 1885 to 1960, Congo was a colony. Initially the personal territory…

Workers Party: “We Want Belgium Out of NATO and NATO Out of Belgium”

Muhammed Shabeer A rally by the Workers’ Party of Belgium and its various affiliated organizations against Donald Trump. In the second part of an interview with Peoples Dispatch, Bert De Belder of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) talks about the rise of the far-right and fascists in the country and Europe. He also talks…

Midnight in the Congo: The Assassination of Lumumba and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjold

Because no one pursued the truth about Lumumba at the time, and no one found the truth about Hammarskjold’s death, assassination remained a viable way to change foreign policy, writes Lisa Pease. Lisa Pease From the March-April, 1999 Issue (Vol. 6 No. 3) of Probe “In Elizabethville, I do not think there was anyone there…