Félix-Roland Moumié

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Félix-Roland Moumié was a Cameroonian Marxist leader, assassinated in Geneva in 1960 by the SDECE (French secret services) with thalium ^[1]. Félix-Roland Moumié succeeded to Ruben Um Nyobe, killed in September 1958, as leader of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC - or also Union du Peuple Camerounais — "Cameroon's People Union").

[edit] References

1. ^ 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

[edit] See also

• Colonialism and subsection on "Assassinated anticolonialist leaders" in Decolonization
• Cameroon's People Union (UPC)
• Jacques Foccart

[edit] External links

• "The History of Cameroon" from Encyclopedia Britannica
• "Cameroon: To Kill the UPC and Félix-Roland Moumié", in Marianne magazine, March 30, 2005.