Pierre Mulele

Pierre Mulele ( born August 11, 1929 † October 3 (possibly 9 October ) 1968 ) was a Maoist politician of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who belonged to the ethnic group of the Bapende, a tribe speaking a Bantu language.

Life

Policy

He was a rebel government in 1961 with Antoine Gizenga ago as prime minister after he was education minister Patrice Lumumba. After the assassination of Lumumba, he fled the country and went to the Soviet bloc. After training in the Eastern bloc and Communist China in 1964, he led the Mai-Mai uprising in the region Kwilu the Maoist block, before he fled to Congo - Brazzaville after the defeat. During the uprising, its militias caused many atrocities, killing European settlers and missionaries, destroyed Christian organizations such as hospitals, schools or churches. Even children in orphanages were not spared.

In 1968, Joseph Desire Mobutu persuaded ( Mobutu Sese Seko ), return from exile him, and promised him amnesty. Shortly afterwards, he and all the people who had visited him since his return, was arrested and subsequently killed. Mulele was publicly tortured, torn out eyes and genitals and limbs amputated one by one, while he was still alive. His body was thrown into the Congo River.

On 8 February 2002, the Avenue de la Liberté, one of the biggest streets of Kinshasa in his honor was renamed Avenue Pierre Mulele.

Private

Mulele married Leonie Abo, a political companion. After his assassination, she fled the country. The Belgian book Une Femme du Congo (A Congolese woman ), by Ludo Martens, tells her life story.

Code of Conduct

Mulele presented on a set of rules, which should serve as a kind of code of conduct for its revolutionaries: