{"id":80172,"date":"2013-04-02T10:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=80172"},"modified":"2013-04-05T18:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:57:54","slug":"british-spies-organised-execution-of-patrice-lumumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/british-spies-organised-execution-of-patrice-lumumba\/","title":{"rendered":"British Spies Organised Execution Of Patrice Lumumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British spies admitted helping to organise the detention and execution of the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1960s, a peer has claimed, the Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Baroness (Daphne) Park of Monmouth, who was the senior MI6 officer in the African country at the time, said she had &#8220;organised it&#8221;, according to the Labour peer Lord Lea. Independence leader Patrice Lumumba was arrested, tortured and executed just months after becoming the first democratically elected prime minister of the DRC in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/democraticrepublicofcongo\/9965387\/MI6-organised-execution-of-DRC-leader-Lumumba-peer-claims.html\">the Telegraph<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80173\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/british-spies-organised-execution-of-patrice-lumumba\/belgium-lumumba\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80173\" title=\"BELGIUM LUMUMBA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Patrice-Lumumba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Patrice-Lumumba.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Patrice-Lumumba-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British spies admitted helping to organise the detention and execution of Patrice Lumumba the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1960s, a peer has claimed. 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