"40 000 per capita premium January 17th, 1961 lies.
front of the conning tower of the airport Elisabethvielle the concrete landing path in the bright glare in the distance bordered by the jungle, now, on this January day, a shimmering haze crowns. The final moisture of the wet season is the heat of the sun vanished.
On the small balcony of the command tower, three people - two European and a native chubby with massive neck. They wear suits and the latest European fashions. Attention they watch an airplane that just coming in for landing. The thickness can expect the end of the landing maneuver, barely, he threatens impatient with his clenched fist. 'This time you do not escape me,' he says in a low, excited voice. 'Now I take revenge. " "
So begins the chapter on crimes against Africa," in Kurt's back "headline murder." The fat is Godefroid Munongo and interior ministers of the government of Katanga, actually a part of Congo. The one he expected, and that day will not survive, is Patrice Lumumba, the 30th since Minsterpräsident June 1960 independent Republic of Congo.
On 30 Patrice Lumumba in June 1960 called Leopoldville from the Unanhängigkeit. The independence was hard won. In discussions with the Belgian colonial power since 20 Interviews conducted in January 1960 on independence. At this time, Lumumba was in jail, arrested 3 months earlier at a demonstration in Stanleyville, killed by the colonial police and wounded 75 more than 200 Congolese were. Of necessity he had to be released, because the Congolese delegation else would not have started negotiations on independence. And in the African country it was fermenting.
But with the Declaration of Independence was no peace in the central African country. Too much could profit the Belgian owner of the Union Miniere, which degraded the Congolese treasury Katanga uranium, cobalt and copper. 1959, 280 300 tonnes of copper, 8430 tonnes of cobalt and 2900 promoted high-quality uranium concentrate. The Union Miniere brought a net profit of about 6 million francs (worth 1960). And give that up?
was murdered 60 years ago today, Patrice Lumumba, because he wanted to break the power of the Belgian colonialists, because his party (MNC) and he for the independence fought and after the proclamation of the Republic of Congo did everything for it, to look beyond a statement, but really struggling to become independent would use the natural resources of Congo Congolese, no more and no less.
The book is also very worth reading. It points to political and economic contexts of the murder of Solomon Bandaranaike, Dr. Felix Moumié, Egerton Norman, Patrice Lumumba, Prof. Galindez, Stepan Bandera, Wolfgang Döring and John F. Kennedy.
sources: "headline murder," Kurt Rückmann, German military Verlag Berlin 1966, quote p. 135
So begins the chapter on crimes against Africa," in Kurt's back "headline murder." The fat is Godefroid Munongo and interior ministers of the government of Katanga, actually a part of Congo. The one he expected, and that day will not survive, is Patrice Lumumba, the 30th since Minsterpräsident June 1960 independent Republic of Congo.
On 30 Patrice Lumumba in June 1960 called Leopoldville from the Unanhängigkeit. The independence was hard won. In discussions with the Belgian colonial power since 20 Interviews conducted in January 1960 on independence. At this time, Lumumba was in jail, arrested 3 months earlier at a demonstration in Stanleyville, killed by the colonial police and wounded 75 more than 200 Congolese were. Of necessity he had to be released, because the Congolese delegation else would not have started negotiations on independence. And in the African country it was fermenting.
But with the Declaration of Independence was no peace in the central African country. Too much could profit the Belgian owner of the Union Miniere, which degraded the Congolese treasury Katanga uranium, cobalt and copper. 1959, 280 300 tonnes of copper, 8430 tonnes of cobalt and 2900 promoted high-quality uranium concentrate. The Union Miniere brought a net profit of about 6 million francs (worth 1960). And give that up?
was murdered 60 years ago today, Patrice Lumumba, because he wanted to break the power of the Belgian colonialists, because his party (MNC) and he for the independence fought and after the proclamation of the Republic of Congo did everything for it, to look beyond a statement, but really struggling to become independent would use the natural resources of Congo Congolese, no more and no less.
The book is also very worth reading. It points to political and economic contexts of the murder of Solomon Bandaranaike, Dr. Felix Moumié, Egerton Norman, Patrice Lumumba, Prof. Galindez, Stepan Bandera, Wolfgang Döring and John F. Kennedy.
sources: "headline murder," Kurt Rückmann, German military Verlag Berlin 1966, quote p. 135
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