A court in Belgium has ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over his alleged role in the 1961 assassination of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Etienne Davignon is accused of the unlawful detention and illegal transfer of Lumumba to the Katanga region, where he was later killed. 93-year-old Etienne Davignon was a …

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