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Assassination of Ludo De Witte Translated by Ann Wright and Renee Fenby THE ASSASSINATION LUMUMBA OF y/ip V THE ASSASSINATION LUMUMBA OF LUDO DE WITTE Translated by ANN WRIGHT RENEE FENBY and V VERSO London • NewYork To Jacquie FirstpublishedbyVerso 2001 Thisedition©Verso 2001 Translation©AnnWrightand Renee Fenby 2001 Firstpublishedas DeMoordopLumumbaby Editions Uitgeverij van Halewyck 1999 © Ludo DeWitte 1999 All rightsreserved 3579 864 10 The moral rightsofthe authorandthetranslatorshavebeenasserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, LondonW1F0EG USA: 180VarickStreet,NewYork, NY 10014-4606 VersoistheimprintofNew Left Books ISBN 1-85984—618—1 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A cataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromthe British Library Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Witte, Ludode. [Moordop Lumumba, English] The assassinationofLumumba / LudodeWitte : translatedbyAnn Wrightand Renee Fenby. p. cm. ISBN 1—85984—618-1 (cloth) — 1. Lumumba, Patrice—, 1925—19—61 Assassination. 2. Congo (Democratic Republic) Flistory CivilWar, 1960—1965. I.Title. DT658.22.L85W5813 2001 967.5103—dc21 2001035773 M Typesetby Rules PrintedbyBiddles Ltd, Guildfordand King’s Lynn “The Gods are not all powerful, they cannot erase the past.” Agathon “How can a beret coloured blue erase, just like that, the preju- dices of conservative officers from Sweden, Canada or Britain? How does a blue armband vaccinate against the racism and paternalism of people whose only vision of Africa is lion hunt- ing, slave markets and colonial conquest; people for whom the history of civilisation is built on the possession of colonies? Naturally they would understand the Belgians. They have the same past, the same history, the same lust for our wealth.” Patrice Lumumba Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/assassinationoflOOwitt CONTENTS Translators’ note xi Acknowledgements xiii Preface to the English-language edition xv Introduction xxi Map ofthe Congo in 1960 xxvii Who’s Who on 17January 1961 xxviii The International Actors XXX PREPARING THE GALLOWS 1 A “nigger”upstart (30 June 1960) • Belgian troops and the Blue Berets in Katanga (July—August 1960) • The elimination ofLumumba’s government (August—September 1960) * In the steps ofthe CIA: Operation Barracuda 1
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