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The American Role in Lumumba's Murder

American officials plotted to assassinate Lumumba, the Congo's first prime minister, in 1960. While a CIA plan to poison him was abandoned, U.S. officials enabled his overthrow, supported his opposition, and secretly approved his transfer to executioners who murdered him on January 17, 1961.
July 21, 2026

LA News Monitor | June 7, 2010 An anti-torture non-governmental association, the Physicians for Human Rights, has revealed some gruesome facts: Medical personnel who were involved in “enhanced interrogations” of terrorists during the Bush administration are guilty of “complicity in intentionally harmful interrogation practices [that] were not only apparently intended to enable the routine practice of torture, but also to serve as a potential legal defense against criminal liability for torture.