Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba
本书研究1961年刚果民选总理卢蒙巴被谋杀事件，揭示外部势力与内部冲突如何破坏非洲主权，并基于大量证据分析美国、比利时和联合国的共谋。
Patrice Lumumba's murder in 1961, a few months after his democratic election as the first prime minister of the (Democratic) Republic of Congo, symbolizes the turn from the colonial to a postcolonial era in Africa. It showed, right after independence celebrations, how sovereignty on the continent was undermined by external powers just as much as by internal conflict. Given its symbolic dimensions, the circumstances of Lumumba's murder ignited emotions and interests for decades. The complicity of the USA, Belgium, and the United Nations has been described by a number of inquiries and academic works, and has also featured in documentaries and movies. In the DRC, Belgium and the USA, official inquiries have unearthed a great deal of evidence. In the academic field, Ludo de Witte's “The Assassination of Lumumba” (2001) established the case of Belgium's involvement. A number of other publications prove that President Eisenhower ordered the CIA to organize several assassination attempts against Lumumba, all of which failed. The command for, and the actual killing itself were the work of Congolese and Belgian men who were formally part of the secessionist regime in Katanga. Given this wealth of research, the authors of “Death in the Congo” face the difficult task of offering new insights on the criminal, political and historical dimensions of this murder.