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Belgium seeking to put ex-official on trial over killing of Congo’s Lumumba

Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced Tuesday they were looking to try the last of 10 Belgians accused of complicity in the murder of the iconic leader, in the European country’s latest effort to reckon with its colonial past.

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