Lumumba and his cabinet responded by accusing Kasa-Vubu of high treason and voted to dismiss him.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

Lumumba and Kasavubu blamed it all on the military intervention by the Belgians, and appealed to the United Nations to send troops to oust them.

) Lumumba further complicated the U.N.'s mission by initiating small `` wars '' with the secessionist province of Katanga and with South Kasai which, under Albert Kalonji, wanted to secede as well.

On 14 July 1960, in response to requests by Prime Minister Lumumba, the UN Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 143.

Because the Congolese army had been in disarray since the mutiny, Lumumba wanted to use the UN troops to subdue Katanga by force.

** Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.

* December 7 – The United Nations Security Council is called into session by the Soviet Union in order to consider Soviet demands for the Security Council to seek the immediate release of the former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.

His two-year sentence was commuted to twelve months after it was confirmed by Belgian lawyer Jules Chrome that Lumumba had returned the funds, and he was released in July 1956.

At this international conference, hosted by influential Pan-African President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Lumumba further solidified his Pan-Africanist beliefs.

On 14 September, a coup d ’ état organised by Colonel Joseph Mobutu incapacitated both Lumumba and Kasa-Vubu.

This cable goes on to state that the writer's sources ( not yet declassified ) said that after being taken from the airport Lumumba was imprisoned by " all white guards ".

The report of 2001 by the Belgian Commission mentions that there had been previous U. S. and Belgian plots to kill Lumumba.

However, as Kalb points out in her book, Congo Cables, the record shows that many communications by Devlin at the time urged elimination of Lumumba ( p. 53, 101, 129 – 133, 149 – 152, 158 – 159, 184 – 185, 195 ).

In July 2006, documents released by the United States government revealed that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Lumumba.

Both Belgium and the US were clearly influenced in their unfavourable stance towards Lumumba by the Cold War.

Patrice Lumumba was married to Pauline Lumumba and had five children ; François was the eldest followed by Patrice Junior, Julienne, Roland and Guy-Patrice Lumumba.

The catalogue of a travelling exhibition of contemporary Congolese artists who were inspired by the legacy of Lumumba.

* Seduto alla sua destra ( 1968 ) – A fictional film by writer-director Valerio Zurlini starring Woody Strode as a thinly disguised Lumumba.

Dramatized biography directed by Raoul Peck with Eriq Ebouaney as Lumumba.

* In the 1961 song " Top Forty, News, Weather And Sports " by Mark Dinning, the verse " I had Lumumba doing the rumba ..." was removed after his death a few weeks after the release of the record.

From the day of the arguably ill-prepared independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the tensions between the powerful leaders of the political elite, such as Joseph Kasa Vubu, Patrice Lumumba, Moise Tshombe, Joseph Mobutu and others, jeopardize the political stability of the new state.

It was also, arguably, in the first steps of the Congo into independence, the underlying cause of the crisis between Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa Vubu, who ultimately dismissed each other, in 1960.

Patrice Émery Lumumba ( 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961 ) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960.

Lumumba delivered his famous independence speech after being officially excluded from the event programme, despite being the new prime minister.

A few days after Congo gained its independence, Lumumba made the fateful decision to raise the pay of all government employees except for the army.

Following the granting of independence on 30 June 1960, a coalition government was formed, led by Prime Minister Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu.

In the year 2000, a film called Lumumba portrayed him as being involved during his service in Congo in the murder of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba.

On 22 February, 1961, the University was named after Patrice Lumumba — one of the symbols of the African peoples ’ fight for independence.

In 1959, as the country approached independence, the MNC was split by internal conflicts between the left-leaning Patrice Lumumba and the moderate Albert Kalonji.

In 1958, together with Cyrille Adoula and Joseph Ileo, Lumumba founded the Mouvement National Congolais ( MNC ), a national independence party intended to be non-tribal.

They stayed for the official lunch, at which Lumumba made a somewhat more conciliatory speech saying " At the moment when the Congo reaches independence, the whole Government wishes to pay solemn homage to the King of the Belgians and to the noble people he represents for the work done here over three quarters of a century.

The 1960 elections, held in the wake of independence, saw Patrice Lumumba become prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president.

In contrast, the champions of African independence in the 1960s, e. g. Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Kenneth Kaunda, Robert Mugabe, and occasionally the diasporan Pan-Africanists W. E. B.

Third, there were those ( notably Patrice Lumumba ) who favored a unified Congo with a very strong central government.

The wildly erratic nature of Patrice Lumumba caused constant problems -- he frequently announced that he wanted the U.N. to get out of the Congo along with the Belgians, and appealed to Russia for help.

Meanwhile Russia took every opportunity to meddle in the Congo, sending Lumumba equipment for his `` wars '', dispatching `` technicians '' and even threatening, on occasion, to intervene openly.

In 1964, Cuba supported the Simba Rebellion of adherents of Patrice Lumumba in Congo-Leopoldville ( present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ).

Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced the nationalist Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and pro-Western Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.

** Patrice Lumumba of Republic of Congo is assassinated.

* February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.

* January 17 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo ( b. 1925 )

Lumumba was born in Onalua in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai province of the Belgian Congo, a member of the Tetela ethnic group.

The UN Security Council was called into session on 7 December 1960 to consider Soviet demands that the UN seek Lumumba's immediate release, the immediate restoration of Lumumba as head of the Congo government, the disarming of the forces of Mobutu, and the immediate evacuation of Belgians from the Congo.

" Lumumba ’ s pan-Africanism and his vision of a united Congo gained him many enemies.

Also, the CIA station chief helped to direct the search to capture Lumumba for his transfer to his enemies in Katanga ; was involved in arranging his transfer to Katanga ( p. 158, Hoyt, Michael P. 2009, " Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness "); and the CIA base chief in Elizabethville was in direct touch with the killers the night Lumumba was killed.

He returned to Congo in 1992 to oppose Mobutu since which time he has been the leader of the Mouvement National Congolais Lumumba ( MNC-L ), his father's original political party.

* Thomas R. Kanza, Conflict in the Congo: The Rise and Fall of Lumumba ( Penguin African library ), 1972, New York: Penguin, ISBN 0140410309.

* Bogumil Jewsiewicki, ed., A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art, 1999, New York: Museum for African Art, ISBN 0-945802-25-0.

* Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is a fictional account of an American missionary family in the Congo during the election and assassination of Lumumba.