~ Ludo De Witte, the Belgian author of the best book on this crime:
*_The Assassination of Lumumba_*
Showing Thursday, January 17, in Cambridge [please download distribute &
flyer <http://rule19.org/download-
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 52 years ago,
on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of 2
inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments,
which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry
out the deed.
This docudrama tells the true story of Lumumba's rise to power and
brutal assassination. Using newly discovered historical evidence,
Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director *Raoul Peck**
renders an emotional and tautly woven account of this man with a flair
for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland
to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords.
Lumumba is led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in
Belgium, the US, and the international community -- where political
entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest
for economic and political hegemony.
[****Raoul Peck* is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both
documentary and feature films, and a political activist. Briefly, in
the 1990s, he was Haiti's Minister of Culture]
"/I had lunched with Larry Devlin***, my former patron and the famous
eminence grise of the Congo program of the early sixties. After two long
tours in the Congo, where he had shuffled new governments like cards,
finally settling on Mobutu as president, Devlin had been put in charge
of the agency's paramilitary program in Laos./" ~John Stockwell, CIA agent
*[***Larry Devli*n, stationed for many years in Africa, was CIA
Station Chief in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC] when
Lumumba was assassinated.]
"/Alternatives for dealing with 'the problem' were considered, among
them poison (a supply was sent to the CIA station chief in
Leopoldville), a high-powered rifle, and free-lance hit men. But it
proved hard to get close enough to Lumumba to use these, so, instead,
the CIA supported anti-Lumumba elements within the factionalized Congo
government./" ~ Eric Hochschild, author King Leopold's Ghost_
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*When/where*
doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor,
entrance on Windsor
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Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends!
*free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.**
**[donations are encouraged]*
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