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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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 Posted - 29 Mar 2006 : 01:48:33
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This was what I could gather for you in Bantaba to read and discuss
Kinshasa - On a chilly night on January 17, 1961, the formerly elected prime minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, and two of his former ministers, were dragged from their holding cells to a tree. On that fateful day in the copper rich district of Katanga, a Belgian officer, acting on orders from Kinshasa, gave an order and Lumumba was sprayed with bullets. Exactly 40 years later, on January 16, 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila, a man from Katanga, was in Kinshasa's Marble Palace preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lumumba's death. Suddenly, one of his body guards turned and, without speaking, sprayed him with bullets.
As Kabila fell, he gave pause to a movement of Lumumbaism which he had resurrected in his march from his Katanga homeland to drive the technocrat Mobutu SeseSeko from Kinshasa. To many Congolese, Kabila's death was a repeat of an old-age colonial legacy and as in Lumumba's death, they are pointing accusing fingers at the Americans and Belgians. When Sunday Nation visited the Marble Palace, Angolan soldiers stood outside the massive gates of what used to be Mobutu's home and the place where Kabila was killed. The parallels between Lumumba and Kabila are clear to the teary-eyed Congolese. With the death of Laurent Kabila, Uganda and Rwanda have started pulling their troops out of Congo and many see this as evidence that the war was not by rebels fighting Kabila but of super powers who are afraid that given a chance, Congo has the potential of becoming one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world.
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kassma
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Posted - 30 Mar 2006 : 09:35:22
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Originally posted by Janyanfara
This was what I could gather for you in Bantaba to read and discuss
Kinshasa - On a chilly night on January 17, 1961, the formerly elected prime minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, and two of his former ministers, were dragged from their holding cells to a tree. On that fateful day in the copper rich district of Katanga, a Belgian officer, acting on orders from Kinshasa, gave an order and Lumumba was sprayed with bullets. Exactly 40 years later, on January 16, 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila, a man from Katanga, was in Kinshasa's Marble Palace preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lumumba's death. Suddenly, one of his body guards turned and, without speaking, sprayed him with bullets.
As Kabila fell, he gave pause to a movement of Lumumbaism which he had resurrected in his march from his Katanga homeland to drive the technocrat Mobutu SeseSeko from Kinshasa. To many Congolese, Kabila's death was a repeat of an old-age colonial legacy and as in Lumumba's death, they are pointing accusing fingers at the Americans and Belgians. When Sunday Nation visited the Marble Palace, Angolan soldiers stood outside the massive gates of what used to be Mobutu's home and the place where Kabila was killed. The parallels between Lumumba and Kabila are clear to the teary-eyed Congolese. With the death of Laurent Kabila, Uganda and Rwanda have started pulling their troops out of Congo and many see this as evidence that the war was not by rebels fighting Kabila but of super powers who are afraid that given a chance, Congo has the potential of becoming one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world.
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 30 Mar 2006 : 13:47:15
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Now is the time to explain toyou and all the readers in somple terms
The DRC(Former Zaire in Mabutu days),is believed to possesed the worlds richest mineral resoures...Gold,diamond,copper zink..you mame it.
When Belgium left,Lumumba was trying to do his best to invest, develop congo but the west would never see any of that.They did everything to suppress him.First Katanga tried to break away with josseph Kasavumbu(a Belgian graduate) was financed by Belgium and America to wage war so that Congo would go into war and so called UN would send troops to plung freely into Congo's resourses and share amongst themselves.
You would recalled that ONE of those soldiers sent to Congo under the UN was responsible for the first coup in a democratic Africa?....Gen.A.E Ankara,after leaving Congo was groomed by the very west to overthrow the best backer of Lumumba Dr. Kwame Nkuruhah who was advocating for a united Africa and had even staged a United radio Africa.(This was closed by Ankara after he took over).
If Congo had been allowed,who knows maybe Africa might be on her own feet.But no young Mabutu was groomed and he became oh my God one of the richest men on earth.The great lumumba was brutally assasinated and never burried for his body was desolved in a chemical.No body was brought b4 any of the UN war crimes tribunals for those crimes.When Kabila came,he had Lumumba ideas and alas that was a remimder of the west about Congo coming back to its ideas of Africanisation of Congo's resourses.He too was brutally killed at closed rainge by agent of the west.Rwanda(Kagame) and Uganda(Museveni) are all tools of the west and they were sent to DRC not for peace but to have a share so as to give the west access to Congo's vast wealth.The Young Kabila has to be wise not to directly show his true friends or else he will also fall victim of their might. |
Edited by - Janyanfara on 30 Mar 2006 13:50:41 |
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