00:00Algeria avenged Congo by punishing Lumumba's assassin.
00:04Lumumba was the first prime minister of Congo after independence.
00:07Except that, in the eyes of Westerners, he commits a crime that is rarely forgiven to a colonized people.
00:12He wants complete independence for African countries.
00:15He wants the Congolese to control their own mines and resources.
00:19But for the former colonizers, the Belgians, it's far too dangerous.
00:23Lumumba absolutely must be killed.
00:25And to bring him down, the Belgians are relying on a shady character.
00:29MoĂŻse Chombe, who is transforming Katanga, the richest mining region in Congo,
00:34in an anti-Lumumba stronghold.
00:35A few months later, Lumumba was betrayed and captured by a certain Mobutu.
00:40who would become the dictator of Congo.
00:42Lumumba was then handed over to Chombe's Katanga.
00:45And from that point on, everyone knows he's already doomed.
00:48And so, in the heart of the jungle and the night,
00:50Chombe's men, aided by three Belgian agents, executed Lumumba.
00:54But that wasn't enough.
00:55It was necessary to destroy the symbol of hope for a free Africa that Lumumba represented.
01:00The Belgians then decided to dissolve his body in acid.
01:03Meanwhile, MoĂŻse Chombe is living the good life.
01:06He went into exile in Spain, taking with him $20 million, some of which was donated by Westerners.
01:11He then led a luxurious lifestyle.
01:13It has been six years since Lumumba's death.
01:15when Chombe boards a jet in Ibiza,
01:17unaware that his gilded exile is about to end.
01:21Because his plane, instead of landing in Mallorca, was diverted and ended up in Algiers.
01:26Unfortunately for him, Algiers at the time was the capital of the revolutionaries.
01:30And the assassination of Lumumba was a shock to the Algerian revolutionaries.
01:33So when Algiers captured Chombe, they locked him up in a house arrest.
01:37Angry Westerners demanded his release.
01:40But Algiers resisted all pressure.
01:42Two years later, Chombe died of a heart attack.
01:45Algeria had just avenged Lumumba without shedding a drop of blood.
01:49But those truly responsible were never properly brought to justice.
01:51Knowledge is a weapon and I'm not about to be silenced.
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