Congolese President Patrice Lumumba’s assassination in 1961
Lumumba was assassinated by a POLICE UNIT that was under the orders of a Belgium officer. His assassination happened seven months after Congo gained its independence. As NBC News reported back then, his killing was the cause of a widening chasm in the US and African relations. The CIA had been involved, as they later found out.
Lumumba has become an icon for many African nationalists, and a reminder of Western “treachery”, according to the Irish Times.
African American leader Malcolm X’s assassination in 1965
Malcolm X was, without a doubt, an extremely controversial religious and civil rights leader. He was shot dead by some of the members of the Nation of Islam. The Nation of Islam was a religious group that he once lead. However, he decided to break away and start his own group, known as the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
