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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYuf-f3lr4

Arrest, ill-treatment, imprisonment, death: such was the fate of Patrice Lumumba. It has been the signal for violent reactions in many parts of the world. First, in the United Nations itself, where a Security Council meeting was violently interrupted. 18 UN guards were injured in making arrests. Now, to reaction in Yugoslavia. This was the scene in Belgrade, where a crowd estimated at 150,000 marched through the streets. In Paris, the Federation of African students demonstrated near the Belgian Embassy. Finally, reaction in Cairo. Carrying Lumumba's picture, a large crowd marched to the Belgian Embassy, and demonstrators climbed the railings and began their anti-Belgian protest by kicked down the Embassy shield.

oglalasioux:
If only Lumumba shut his mouth on that inauguration day. He wasn't scheduled to speak but he bullied his way to the podium and said things he should have kept at heart and secretly act upon.

Lumumba should be a lesson; talk less and act more.

Tshombe, ... fled to Franco's Spain, where he was welcomed by the dictator with no trace of reserve, certainly without regard to these, after having received so many of Hitler's murderers.

‘Tshombe led the life of a king in Spain, an absolute king, surrounded by all sorts of luxuries and concubines in the centre of fascist immorality that was Franco's Spain.

‘While in Spain, the Mobutu government sentenced him to death. But from Spain, Tshombe, in the moments of leisure that the pleasures which came furiously allowed, while throwing away a fortune belonging to his people, from whom it was stolen, continued to organise conspiracies against the Congolese people with the acquiescence of Franco, who made his first arms betraying his people.’
Obviously it isn't necessary to be anti-Franco to note that the description is essentially true – simply leave aside the combative style.

.... So it was that a year before, 1966, and in early 1967, that other documents which also seem to be drawn from press summaries show that Franco and his government were fully aware of the political situation of Tshombe.

.... Ironically, neither the efforts of private Catholic fascism and nor the security of official Catholic fascism could prevent the small plane flying from Ibiza to Palma de Mallorca, where Tshombe was travelling escorted by two Spanish policemen, from being abducted, apparently the first aerial kidnapping occurring in Spain – by J. Francis Boden – apparently his friend, and then flown to Algeria where he was imprisoned and died in mysterious circumstances. ...