WORLD HISTORY AND FACTS

THIS IS SAD! Malawi Times: world history and facts. This is Mrs Pauline Lumumba, wife of Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba who was brutally tortured and murdered by firing Squad led by The Belgian Forces and some of his own people.  After his murder, his wife requested to see his body so that she may properly mourn her husband. She never got that opportunity because the body of Patrice was dismembered and dissolved in an acid by the people that killed him. This picture is how the heartbroken widow Pauline protested her husband's murder on the streets of Congo. She walked barefoot and half naked. Patrice was just 35 years old when he was killed and Pauline was 23 years old when her husband died in 1961. She never remarried until she died on December 23, 2014 at 76 years after the death of her beloved husband. No body part of Patrice Lumumba has been found to this day.  However, a Belgian woman (Godelieve Soete) who is the daughter of one of the Belgian sol