Patrice Lumumba DVD.

- In January 1961, Seven months after Congo won independence from Belgium, the country's first elected head of state, Patric Lumumba, was assasinated in the secessionist Province of Katanga because of fears that he would ally himself with Russia and nationalize Belgian corporate interests in Congo. Using U.N and Belgian Foreign Ministry archives, De Witte, a sociologist whose book, when published in Belgium, led to an official inquiry into the assasination, offers evidence that the Belgian government was directly involved in Lumumba's transfer to Katanga a copper rich state under Belgian control and in his execution. - De Witte points, for instance, to an October 1960 telegram, signed by the Belgian Minister of African Affairs, that called for the ",limination d,finitive" of Lumumba. The African leader was, De Witte shows, totured, and executed under Belgian supervision. - Lumumba's body was exhumed twice and finally dismembered and dissolved in sulfuric acid by a Belgian police commissioner, who wrote an account of his involvement and later bragged on Belgian TV that he had kept two of Lumumba's teeth. According to De Witte, the U.N., under Dag Hammarskj" Id, which also wanted to keep the Congo under Western control, denied Lumumba the protection that would have saved his life. - Funding for investigation and production was provided by African Prestige, always committed to supporting African Affairs.