Félix-Roland Moumié
Félix-Roland Moumié (1926 – 3 November 1960)[1] was an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader, assassinated in Geneva on 3 November 1960 by the SDECE (French secret services) with thallium, following official independence from France earlier that year.[2] Félix-Roland Moumié succeeded Ruben Um Nyobe, who was killed in September 1958, as leader of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC - or also Union du Peuple Camerounais — "Cameroon's People Union").
See also
- Colonialism and subsection on "Assassinated anticolonialist leaders" in Decolonization
- Cameroon's People Union (UPC)
- Jacques Foccart
References
- ↑
- ↑ Jacques Foccart, counsellor to Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou and Jacques Chirac for African matters, recognized it in 1995 to Jeune Afrique review. See also Foccart parle, interviews with Philippe Gaillard, Fayard - Jeune Afrique (French) and also "The man who ran Francafrique - French politician Jacques Foccart's role in France's colonization of Africa under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle - Obituary" in The National Interest, Fall 1997; Documentary : DEATH IN GENEVA - The Poisoning of Félix Moumié
External links
- "The History of Cameroon" from Encyclopædia Britannica
- "Cameroon: To Kill the UPC and Félix-Roland Moumié", in Marianne magazine, March 30, 2005
- Documentary : DEATH IN GENEVA - The Poisoning of Félix Moumié
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.