Half a century ago, humanity learned of one of the most unpunished acts whose objective was to eliminate African leader Patricio Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo.

 
Assassinated by a conspiracy organized by the Belgium government with the complicity of the United States, Britain and the UN, the physical disappearance of Lumumba took the country to the dictatorship of Mobutu, loyal collaborator of the masterminds of the criminal act.

Born on June 2nd, 1925, Patrice Emergy Lumumba, revolutionary and fighter for his country´s independence, then Belgium colony, created the Congolese National Movement and in a short time became one of the main leaders of the liberation of the African nation, declared an independent republic on June 30th, 1960.

The progressive and anti colonialist ideas of the young leader in favor of African unity created an uproar in the western powers which did not stop until physically eliminating the brave revolutionary.

 
The constant looting of Congo´s natural resources on behalf of Belgium was always stopped by the Lumumba government, whose line of action was to eliminate the colonialist ideals that reigned in Africa.

The so much desired richness of the Democratic Republic of Congo meant an enormous tragedy for the people that lived at the time horrendous civil wars and suffered the consequences of a dictatorship Made in Brussels.

 
At the end of September of 1960, Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko took power in the capital and carried out a wave or repression against political organizations; days later, Lumumba was detained, but was able to escape from that action and later took refuge in his main base of support in Stanleyville.
 

On December 2nd of that same year, the army captured him again until, finally after endless tortures, killed him on January 17th 1961 in Kananga.

 
The events against Patricio Lumumba were always presented as “internal battles against the Bantus”, which was part of a misinformation campaign orchestrated by those responsible for the crime.

 
“No brutality, mistreatment or torture has made me surrender because I prefer to die with my head held up high, with my unbreakable faith and profound confidence in the future of my country, to living and stepping over my sacred principles”, Lumumba wrote in a letter addressed to his wife and children days before dying.
 

The history and ideas of the African leader went beyond the borders of his country and today, 50 years after his death, his legacy lives among his people and nations that still struggle for full independence.

 
“One day, said Lumumba, history will judge us, but it will not be by the story told by Brussels, Paris, Washington or the UN, but the emancipating colonialist nations”.