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“His body is said to have been buried in a shallow grave, and then dug up on orders from Belgian officers, severed into pieces and dissolved in acid.
The gold-crowned tooth was all that remained. Gerard Soete, a Belgian police officer who oversaw the exhumation, later admitted to taking the tooth.”
https://www.dw.com/en/belgium-returns-remains-of-patrice-lumumba/a-62188213
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Belgium returns gold tooth of Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba | DW | 20.06.2022
The only remnant of the murdered Congolese independence leader, a gold tooth, was returned to his family during a ceremony in Brussels. His 1961 murder is a reminder of Belgium's brutal colonial history.
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