A court in Belgium has ruled in favour of Juliana Lumumba, daughter of Congolese liberation icon Patrice Emery Lumumba, to have her father's remaining tooth be returned to the family.
For years Juliana Lumumba had been leading a campaign to have her father's remains be returned to the land of his ancestors, the Democratic Republic of Congo; she even wrote to the Belgium Monarch, King Philippe I, to facilitate such process.
It's believed that Lumumba's tooth was the only remain left of him after his body was dismembered and dissolved in acid during an assassination mission.
The tooth was removed from Lumumba's body by a policeman who assisted in disposing his body. He than took it to Belgium where his family had kept it for more than half a century
Lumumba was assassinated in January 1961 by members of America's Central Intelligence Agency, in collaboration with Belgium officials. In 2002 the government of Belgium officially issued an apology for its participation in the assasination
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