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20
Yüni
2022

Belgium returns Patrice Lumumba’s tooth to his family

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📅 20 Yüni 2022 📍 Bélgika, Kongo-Kinshasa

Belgian authorities returned a tooth identified as belonging to Congolese independence leader Patrice Emery Lumumba to his family in a state ceremony. Lumumba was assassinated in 1961 with Belgian involvement, and the tooth was retained in Belgium. The return enabled burial and public mourning, an immaterial and material act of repair, while it did not resolve the broader responsibility for his killing or colonial violence.

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Patrice Lumumba’s family

Alexander De Croo

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Government of Belgium

Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo