News report · Independent publication
Belgium apologizes for Lumumba assassination
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- Publisher
- The Globe and Mail / Associated Press
- Date
- February 2002
- Original language
- en
- Link
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/belgium-apologizes-for-lumumba-assassination/article22395175/Accessed 23 September 2026
Editorial annotation
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.