baleke, was the return of patrice lumba's remains? and the so-called apology issued by belgium enough to atone for these horrendous crimes, they returned the thief of patrice lumba, that was symbolic, you remember he was burned out in asidic water and killed, assassinated, so the only remaining part was his um was his teeth, and his family has been reclaiming uh that for years so that they could you know bury symbolically uh a party of the body for the uh for their father patrice lumber, so for the family perspective, that was um, you know, that was something great, and we had to, we had to demand for that, and we need as well reparation overall politically, because the role belgium played in the assassination of patrice lumber continues to have repercutions up to date in the congose political sphere and... and you now they misled the congo, like they took the congo out of a trajectory of progress and put it in the trajectory of um uh corruption and manipulation and neocolonialism. belgium's king flip visited the democratic republic o

to discuss the legacy of patrice lumba, we have contacted kambalay musavuli, a political analyst and human rights activist. he's also the spokes person for the friends of the congo. thanks for joining us today, sir. thank you for having me. we also joined by gideon balike, the secretary general of african coalition for development. thank you for your time sir today, thank you, it's such an honor to be part of this conversation, now the us central intelligence agency, cia and britain's mi6 were the main conspirators with belgium in the assassination of patrice lumba, so let's start off with mr. masavuli, why did these western imperialist colonial powers decide to sponsor this heinous crime? one of the reasons, there are many reasons, one of the uh reasons was assassinate. is because he wanted the resources of the congo to benefit the congodes people, he fought for the independence of the congo, it was clear that when congo got his independence, that the resources of the land will benefit the congoleses, building infrastructure and providing opportunities to kongolese, that did not sit

baleke, was the return of patrice lumba's remains and the so-called apology issued by belgium enough to attone for these horrendous crimes? they returned the thief of patrice lumba, that was. you remember he was burned out in um acidic water and killed, assassinated, so the only remaining part was his um was his teeth and his family has been reclaiming uh that for years so that they could you know bury symbolically uh a party of the body for the uh for their father patrice lomumba so for the uh family perspective that was um you know that was something great. and we had to, we had to demand for that, and we need as well reparation overall uh politically, because the role belgium played in the assassination of patrice lumber continues to have repercussions up to date in the congolese political sphere, and you know they misled the congo, like they took the congo out of a trajectory of progress and put it in a trajectory of... um uh corruption and manipulation and neocolonialism. belgium's king flip visited the democratic republic of congo early june 20. 22 and as expected he flatly ref

in june 2022, the belgian government returned the remains of patrice lumba to his family unpported to apologize for his mother. his son commented on this move. and killed, assassinated, so the... remaining part was his um was his teeth and uh his family has been reclaiming uh that for years so that they could you know bury symbolically uh a party of the body for the uh for their father patrice so for the uh family perspective that was um you know that was something great and uh we had to we had to demand for that and we need as well reparation overall uh politically because uh the role belgium played in the assassination of patrice lumber uh continues to have reprecutions up to date in the congose uh political uh sphere and um you know they misled the congo like they took the congo out of a trajectory of progress and put it in the trajectory of um corruption and manipulation and neocolonialism but king flip visited the democratic republic of congo early june 2022 and as expected he flatly refused to apologize for his country's brutal. and inhumane crimes in the congo, king flip only o

lumba was assassinated six decades ago, but his name remains synonymous with africa's struggle against imperialism, his speech during the proclamation of congo's independence in june 1960, angured western powers and this led to his eventual assassination. to discuss the legacy of patrice lumumba, we have contacted kambalay musavuli, a political analyst and human rights activist, he's also the spokesperson for the friends of the congo. thanks for joining us today, sir. thank you for having me. we also joined by gidon balaike, the secretary general of african coalition for development. thank you for your time sir today. thank you, it's such an honor to be part of this conversation. now, the us central. intelligence agency cia and britain's mi6 were the main conspirators with belgium in the assassination of patrice lumumba. so let's start off with mr. masavuli. why did these uh western imperialist colonial powers decide to sponsor this heinous crime? one of the reasons, there are many reasons, but one of the uh reasons that was assassinated is because he wanted the resources of the congo

let us remember the murder of patrice lumba in 1961.hov, who came to the platform, became the one who took off his pants from the west. he stood up for the cause of black africa, for the liberation of africa. this thanks to khrushchev. he also completely changed the course of history with his speech at the un. another fateful meeting for the then young malian architecture student with the minister of foreign affairs of the ussr andrei andreevich gromyk. he asked us what you were studying. we said medicine, architecture, engineering . gromyka said: “okay.” he said: “take white paper, draw what you want, this will be your country.” in other words, do not follow the west, develop, build your country in your own way, implement your ideas, this is what he told us. your ambassador to mali is igor gromyka. he is the grandson of andrei gromyk, i also had an important meeting with him. as honorary president of the group of patriots of mali. sadibu asked the ambassador of the russian federation. we are talking about our national sovereignty, it's