Two days ago, Belgian authorities returned a relic of the murder of Patrice Lumumba to his family in a private ceremony in Brussels. It was a gold-capped tooth, the only remnant of the body of the ...

How Patrice Lumumba's assassination drove student activism, shaping the Congo's future Ultimately, beyond its cosmetic or even symbolic value, the gesture of returning Lumumba's violated tooth ...

The gold-crowned tooth of Democratic Republic of Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba has been buried more than 60 years after he was assassinated. It is the only part of his body that exists ...

Patrice Emery Lumumba, "father of Congolese independence ... This came after former colonial power Belgium returned his tooth ten days earlier. But while the Belgian gesture allowed a rare ...

Belgium on Monday handed over the last remains of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba -- a tooth -- to his family, turning a page on a grim chapter in its colonial past. Chief prosecutor ...

Last month, the Belgian government returned a gold-capped tooth that was ripped from the mouth of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) first elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba ...

Belgian authorities have returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and ...

More than 60 years ago, Congo's anti-colonial hero Patrice Lumumba was murdered. Only one tooth remained from his corpse. He now finds his final resting place in a mausoleum — but this triggers ...

After his assassination in 1961, Lumumba's body was dismembered and dissolved with acid in an apparent effort to keep any grave from becoming a pilgrimage site. The tooth was seized by Belgian ...