{"id":6755,"date":"2026-03-17T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6755\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:13:08","slug":"belgian-court-orders-trial-of-ex-diplomat-for-congo-independence-icon-patrice-lumumbas-killing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6755\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian court orders trial of ex-diplomat for Congo independence icon Patrice Lumumba&#8217;s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z3VMXQF35BD5ZD3RN4EOQWHBRI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In a rare judgment on Belgian involvement in a former colony, a Belgian court ordered on Tuesday that a 93-year-old former diplomat stand trial for the 1961 assassination of Congo\u2019s former prime minister and independence icon, Patrice Lumumba, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YBQF56BM7ZGDDIWMZNZ6URHUDU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Lumumba, who was killed at 35, was the political springhead of mineral-rich Congo\u2019s independence from colonial Belgium in June 1960. He served as the country\u2019s first prime minister briefly for three months before he was forced out and killed a year later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rare judgment on Belgian involvement in a former colony, a Belgian court ordered on Tuesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4882,4885,7,1395,146,264,4884,4883,3534,142],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-af-congo-patrice-lumumba","tag-assassinations","tag-belgium","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-homicide","tag-indictments","tag-war-crimes","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116246112015915780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}