The documentary film “Lumumba, the return of a hero” directed by Benoît Feyt, Dieudo Hamadi and Quentin Noirfalisse will be presented in preview on Thursday June 8 at the Vendôme cinema in Ixelles. Lasting 1 hour 26 minutes, it plunges into political celebrations of the return of the remains of Patrice Lumumba, central figure of Congolese independence and Prime Minister, assassinated in 1961. The documentary seeks above all to know what he rest of Lumumba, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Belgium, a country that was a former colonizing power.
Lumumba’s body, along with those of two of his collaborators, was dissolved in acid in 1961 by a Belgian police officer, Gérard Soete, in the context of the Cold War and African liberations. Only one tooth appears to have been recovered. In 2016, human remains were discovered in Belgium, but their identification has not yet been carried out. Until today, the murder of the three men has not been solved.
Belgium organized an official ceremony a year ago in honor of Patrice Lumumba, a symbolic act to ask forgiveness for colonial history and restore a tarnished image. The documentary aims to report on the progress of the implementation of the agreements reached during the extraordinary summit of the East African community for security in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on justice and security. , but also on the food crisis that has affected the country for several months.
The Young Congolese Entrepreneurs Fair, like the appointment of Julienne Lusenge as deputy coordinator of the national mechanism for monitoring the Addis Ababa Framework Agreement, are advances for the representation of women in the country’s political and economic issues. . However, freedom of expression and respect for human rights are still restricted in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is important to remember that the dynamics of citizen movements are alerted to these restrictions as well as to the electoral pressure during the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for 2023..+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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