23/02/2025
Another Heartbreaking Moment in Congo's Bloody Past!
Take a look at that picture below and reflect. ðŸ˜
It captures the moment Mrs. Pauline Lumumba; wife of Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba who was brutally tortured and murdered by firing Squad led by The Belgian Forces and some of HIS OWN people; chose to protest his death!
See, after his murder, his wife requested to see his body so that she may properly mourn her husband. She never got that opportunity because the body of Patrice was dismembered and dissolved in ACID by the evil people that killed him!
This picture is how the heartbroken widow Pauline protested her husband's murder on the streets of Congo. She walked barefoot and half naked.
Patrice was just 35 years old when he was murdered & Pauline was 23 years old when her husband died in 1961.
She never remarried until she died on December 23, 2015 - 54 years after the death of her beloved husband!
Credit: African History Group
PS: The Belgians after years of protests finally acknowledged this terrible atrocity and recently, the daughter of one of the mercenaries that dismembered and dissolved Lumumba's body in acid gave back a tooth that had been kept as s souvenir.
That tooth was received by the Congolese government and a full funeral ceremony was conducted for that and retuned to the Congo for burial at the memorial site that was originally erected by Mobutu back in 1965.
Life isn't without a sense of irony considering that Mobutu and Kasavubu were paid $100,000 by the CIA to betray Lumumba back in 1961! 🥺
