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Unit 6
Grades 11-12
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The Tooth and the Statue: Belgium's Slow Reckoning

Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, was captured, tortured, and executed in January 1961, less than seven months after independence, in a killing carried out with direct involvement from Belgian officials and covert support from the CIA (the…

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