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History of Congo’s atrocities tied to USA and atomic bombs

the US acquired a strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of the Congo, following its use of the uranium from Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs..

Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century,  Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja |guardian.co.uk, 18 Jan 2011, The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50 years ago today. Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed…………
The US joined other world powers to force Belgium to take over the country as a regular colony. And it was during the colonial period that the US acquired a strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of the Congo, following its use of the uranium from Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs………Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja | Global development | guardian.co.uk

January 18, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AFRICA, history, Uranium