{"id":91616,"date":"2020-09-11T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91616"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T02:31:26","slug":"belgian-court-says-congos-independence-hero-lumumbas-tooth-should-be-returned-to-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91616","title":{"rendered":"Belgian court says Congo&#8217;s independence hero Lumumba&#8217;s tooth should be returned to his family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Belgian-court-says-Lumumba-s-tooth-should-be-returned-1056691?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/888\/88809240.295.jpg\" alt=\"Patrice Lumumba was murdered in 1961\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Patrice Lumumba was murdered in 1961<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRUSSELS, Sept 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should be returned to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lumumba, who became Congo&#8217;s first prime minister after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, was murdered in 1961 after he was abducted by separatist fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian government had a role in his death and in 2002 issued a formal apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British and American spy agencies are also believed to have been involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lumumba&#8217;s tooth is thought to have been taken by a Belgian policeman who was helping to dispose of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was later seized by the Belgian authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court in Belgium said that the tooth should be given to Lumumba&#8217;s daughter, Juliana Lumumba, who had written a letter to the Belgian king asking for its return, the Brussels Times website reports. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrice Lumumba was murdered in 1961 BRUSSELS, Sept 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should be returned to his family. Lumumba, who became Congo&#8217;s first prime minister after it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, was murdered in 1961 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":91617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}