Justice delayed: After 65 years, Lumumba’s family stands at the threshold of reckoning
IN the annals of colonial violence, few cases illustrate the glacial pace of accountability quite like the murder of Patrice Lumumba. Sixty-five years after the Congolese independence leader was executed and his body dissolved in acid - a grotesque attempt to erase him from history itself - his family gathered outside a Brussels courtroom this week with something they've been denied for generations: hope that justice might finally arrive. "We cannot turn back time," said Yema Lumumba, 33, the slain leader's granddaughter, her words carrying the weight of three generations who have pursued answers in a legal wilderness. "But we…
