Lumumba’s violent end foreshadowed today’s American practice of “extraordinary rendition.”
Monday, January 17, 2011
An Assassination’s Long Shadow
Patrice Lumumba, independence leader of the Congo was assassinated 50 years ago. Adam Hochschild writes in the New York Times of the profound, long-term consequences of the western-backed assassination and the subsequent dictatorship and civil war.
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