Gérard Soete: I cut Lumumba into 34 pieces

“I cut up and dissolved Lumumba’s body in acid. In the middle of the African night, we started by getting drunk to have courage. We got rid of the bodies. The hardest part was cutting them into pieces with a chainsaw before pouring acid into them.

There was almost nothing left, only a few teeth. And the smell! I washed three times and always felt like a barbarian dirty ” These words are those of Gérard Soete, pronounced on 15 May 2002, forty years after the disappearance of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. The hell is empty the Devil’s are here. This is the people who want to teach us human rights.