@araparawet7: CAPTURE OF LUMUMBA In Zaire, On the evening of 27 November 1959, during a tropical downpour, Lumumba left his residence, crouching in the back of a Chevrolet taking his servants home for the night. But for his insistence on stopping along the way to harangue local villagers whenever the opportunity arose, he might have reached Stanleyville safely. On 1 December, however, he was arrested in Kasai province, halfway to Stanleyville. Denied protection by UN troops, he was severely beaten, flown back to Léopoldville and handed into the army’s custody. According to an account by Cléophas Kamitatu, a former minister, when Lumumba was brought to Mobutu’s residence in the Binza paracommando camp, Mobutu ‘scrutinised Lumumba with a malicious air, spat in his face, then said to him, “Well! You swore to have my skin, now it is I who have yours.”’

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