Sources: Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• News report · Independent publication

  Belgium apologizes for Lumumba assassination (The Globe and Mail / Associated Press, February 2002) link

  Contemporary news report, consulted via citation, on Patrice Lumumba's 17 January 1961 transfer to Katanga and killing the same day, the November 2001 Belgian parliamentary commission of inquiry's finding that Belgian authorities bore "moral responsibility" for failing to prevent the assassination, and Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel's February 2002 apology to Lumumba's family and the Congolese public; this bundle reports the commission's own finding rather than asserting responsibility itself.

  Cited on: Democratic Republic of the Congo, History: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960 independence) · Source record

• Reference work · Independent publication

  Congo Crisis (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the 1960-1965 Congo Crisis: the Force Publique mutiny of 5 July 1960, the Katanga secession under Moïse Tshombe (11 July 1960) and the South Kasai secession under Albert Kalonji (9 August 1960), and an estimated death toll of roughly 100,000 across the crisis; the crisis ended with Joseph Mobutu's 25 November 1965 coup.

  Cited on: Democratic Republic of the Congo, History: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960 independence) · Source record

• Reference work · Government perspective or primary official source

  Lumumba, Patrice, Speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo's Independence (Marxists Internet Archive, 30 June 1960) link

  English translation of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's speech at the independence ceremony in Leopoldville, 30 June 1960, as reproduced by the Marxists Internet Archive.

  Cited on: Democratic Republic of the Congo, History: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960 independence) · Source record

• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 1480 (XV): Admission of the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) to membership in the United Nations (United Nations, 20 September 1960) link

  Decides to admit the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) to UN membership, adopted at the 864th plenary meeting, 20 September 1960, alongside several other newly independent states.

  Cited on: Democratic Republic of the Congo, History: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960 independence) · Source record

• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations Security Council, Security Council resolution 142 (1960) (United Nations, 7 July 1960) link

  Recommends to the General Assembly the admission of the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville), adopted unanimously at the 872nd meeting.

  Cited on: Democratic Republic of the Congo, History: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960 independence) · Source record