Vol 67 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The Brussels Court of First Instance's referral of Count Étienne Davignon a former European Commissioner for trial on charges relating to the assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was welcomed by Lumumba's family and rights advocates as step towards justice for Belgium's colonial-era crimes (Dispatches 16/3/26 Brussels opens trial of apparatchik linked to Lumumba's murder)...
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On 17 March the Brussels Court of First Instance is to decide whether former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon will face trial before the Brussels Criminal Court charged with involvement in the abduction and transfer that led to the murder of Congo-Kinshasa's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba (AC Vol 38 No 19 Kabila takes on the UN)...
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Vol 45 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Prosecutors also suspect him of planning to poison and abduct Count Etienne Davignon chief administrator of the giant Suez financial group...