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IT was like a scene from a second-rate 1970s B movie.
It is a dark, wet and stormy night on a lonely coastal road in Exmoor. A yellow Mazda comes to a halt and two men and a Great Dane dog spill out of the car into the rainy night.
One man has a dark stubby Mauser pistol in his hand. He takes aim and shoots the huge hound dead.
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The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went round the world in 1960, and within months, he had been executed by Belgian and CIA-backed forces, writes KEITH BARLOW