En 1960, the legitimate and democratic government led by Patrice Lumumba was overthrown. This bloody overthrow put an end to the democratization process in the nascent Congolese Republic. The Western powers having decided and ordered the end of this democratic process, committed an imprescriptible crime against the people.the Congolese: since then, the children of this country have never had the possibility of living in a democracy or of electing freely, in peace, the leaders of their choice.
If your hands don't serve us, they won't serve you either.
This could well have been the promise made to the Congolese by the Belgian king Leopold II. It was the Berlin conference in 1885 which formalized the grabbing of the Congo which had been brewing for 10 years, " behind the elegant smoke curtain of its International African Association »1 , with allegedly philanthropic aims, then replaced by the International Association of Congo.