65 YEARS LATER — BELGIUM IS FINALLY GOING TO COURT FOR MURDERING PATRICE LUMUMBA A Belgian court has ordered a 93-year-old former diplomat, Count Étienne Davignon, to stand trial for the 1961 assassination of  Congo’s first Prime Minister and pan-African hero Patrice Lumumba  the man who dared to demand true independence for Africa. Lumumba was […] The post 65 YEARS LATER — BELGIUM IS FINALLY GOING TO COURT FOR MURDERING PATRICE LUMUMBA first appeared on The Zambian Observer .