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Lumumba's coffin visits Kisangani, where Congo's first premier found his way
Lumumba's coffin visits Kisangani, where Congo's first premier found his way
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by  AFP

After a rest in his native village, the coffin of the former Belgian Congo's first post-independence prime minister Friday pursued its memorial pilgrimage to the northeastern city of Kisangani. From Kisangani, the coffin will be taken on Sunday to Katanga in the southeast, where a secessionist movement raged after independence and where Lumumba and his aides were tortured to death.