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Belgium to return tooth to family of slain Congolese icon
BRUSSELS – The family of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba will soon receive the only known remains of the assassinated leader, a tooth removed after his death by a Belgium man whose family apparently held on to it for nearly 60 years.Juliana Amato Lumumba had asked Belgium’s king earlier this year for help in getting back the tooth, saying her father had been “condemned to remain a dead person without burial, having only a date on a tomb.”On Thursday, the federal prosecutor's office in Belgium announced that Lumumba's family will be handed back the tooth.There is no absolute certainty that the tooth belonged to Lumumba “since there could be no DNA test,” Eric Van Duyse, a federal prosecutor’s office spokesman told the AP.