Belgium Honors Congolese Leader It Helped Overthrow

The renaming of a Brussels square after Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of independent Congo, is a symbolic step in a sometimes tortured post-colonial history.

Topics:  brussels   patrice lumumba   congo   
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