Life of patrice lumumba
He was born July 2, 1925, Onalua, Belgian Congodied January 1961, Katanga province, Republic of the Congo) African nationalist leader, first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Throughout history, the Congo area in Central Africa has undergone many changes, most for the worse. The Congo has been occupied since 1,550 B.C. during Neolithic times. A variety of tribes began to appear all throughout the Congo around 500 B.C. By the 1500's three sprawling empires came to take over the land.
z
The Luba empire, which was the most dominant and most well known thrived for almost 350 years. The military was small because of the peace amongst villages and empires. The Luba people were soon tricked into being taken over by King Leopold II of Belgium, who ruled from 1865 to 1909. He had bought the land for personal benefit. All of the people in the Congo area were soon enslaved and forced to work on exporting rubber. None of the money made on any of the exports was given to the people in Africa. During the whole process, the indigenous people were tortured and killed.
Lumumba rapidly emerged as a leader of the évoluécommunity and organized a postal workers' union.
In 1955, Lumumba became regional head of the Cercles of Stanleyville and joined the Liberal Party of Belgium, where he worked on editing and distributing party literature.
He helped found the broad-based Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) in 1958.
later becoming the organization's president.
In late October 1959, Lumumba, as leader of the MNC, was arrested for allegedly inciting an anti-colonial riot in Stanleyville where thirty people were killed.
Despite Lumumba's imprisonment at the time, the MNC won a convincing majority in the December local elections in the Congo.
Brussels conference declared Congolese independence and then the MNC won this election and the right to form a governments.
A few days after Congo gained its independence, Lumumba made the fateful decision to raise the pay of all government employees except for the army.
Many units of the army also had strong objections toward the uniformly Belgian officers
The province of Katanga declared independence under regional premier Moïse Tshombe on 11 July 1960 with support from the Belgian government and mining companies such as Union Minière
Lumumba sought Soviet aid in the form of arms, food, medical supplies, trucks, and planes to help move troops to Katanga. Lumumba's decisive actions alarmed his colleagues and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, who preferred a more moderate political approach
In September, the President dismissed Lumumba from government.
The country was torn by two political groups claiming legal power over the country.
Lumumba was forcibly restrained on the flight to Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi) on 17 January 1961.[14] On arrival, he was conducted under arrest to Brouwez House where he was brutally beaten and tortured by Katangan and Belgian officers,[15] while President Tshombe and his cabinet decided what to do with him.
Later that night, Lumumba was driven to an isolated spot where three firing squads had been assembled.
Lumumba and two ministers from his newly formed independent government (and who had also been tortured), Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, were lined up against a tree and shot one at a time.
He was born July 2, 1925, Onalua, Belgian Congodied January 1961, Katanga province, Republic of the Congo) African nationalist leader, first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Throughout history, the Congo area in Central Africa has undergone many changes, most for the worse. The Congo has been occupied since 1,550 B.C. during Neolithic times. A variety of tribes began to appear all throughout the Congo around 500 B.C. By the 1500's three sprawling empires came to take over the land.
z
The Luba empire, which was the most dominant and most well known thrived for almost 350 years. The military was small because of the peace amongst villages and empires. The Luba people were soon tricked into being taken over by King Leopold II of Belgium, who ruled from 1865 to 1909. He had bought the land for personal benefit. All of the people in the Congo area were soon enslaved and forced to work on exporting rubber. None of the money made on any of the exports was given to the people in Africa. During the whole process, the indigenous people were tortured and killed.
Lumumba rapidly emerged as a leader of the évoluécommunity and organized a postal workers' union.
In 1955, Lumumba became regional head of the Cercles of Stanleyville and joined the Liberal Party of Belgium, where he worked on editing and distributing party literature.
He helped found the broad-based Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) in 1958.
later becoming the organization's president.
In late October 1959, Lumumba, as leader of the MNC, was arrested for allegedly inciting an anti-colonial riot in Stanleyville where thirty people were killed.
Despite Lumumba's imprisonment at the time, the MNC won a convincing majority in the December local elections in the Congo.
Brussels conference declared Congolese independence and then the MNC won this election and the right to form a governments.
A few days after Congo gained its independence, Lumumba made the fateful decision to raise the pay of all government employees except for the army.
Many units of the army also had strong objections toward the uniformly Belgian officers
The province of Katanga declared independence under regional premier Moïse Tshombe on 11 July 1960 with support from the Belgian government and mining companies such as Union Minière
Lumumba sought Soviet aid in the form of arms, food, medical supplies, trucks, and planes to help move troops to Katanga. Lumumba's decisive actions alarmed his colleagues and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, who preferred a more moderate political approach
In September, the President dismissed Lumumba from government.
The country was torn by two political groups claiming legal power over the country.
Lumumba was forcibly restrained on the flight to Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi) on 17 January 1961.[14] On arrival, he was conducted under arrest to Brouwez House where he was brutally beaten and tortured by Katangan and Belgian officers,[15] while President Tshombe and his cabinet decided what to do with him.
Later that night, Lumumba was driven to an isolated spot where three firing squads had been assembled.
Lumumba and two ministers from his newly formed independent government (and who had also been tortured), Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, were lined up against a tree and shot one at a time.