DRC: restitution of the tooth, the last relic of Lumumba (3/5)
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Detail of a painting by Sam Ilus, 2016, on Lumumba's tooth.
© RFI / Sabine Cessou
By: Pierre Firtion Follow
4 min
In the DRC, we will commemorate on Sunday the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, deposed Prime Minister of the Congo.
On the anniversary of this disappearance, RFI looks back on the man, the myth and the way in which he was executed.
In this third part, a close-up of the restitution of his last relic to his family.
Found five years ago in the daughter of the Belgian policeman who had dissolved her body in acid, a tooth of the hero of Congolese independence must be given to his relatives by Independence Day, the June 30th.
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