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273:, Secretary of State of the Walloon region.From 1981 to 1983, he was the chef de cabinet to Jean Gol, Vice-Premier, Minister of Justice and Institutional Reforms. From 1983 to 1985, he occupied the same position at the cabinet of Secretary of State of Development Cooperation
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383:"Enquête parlementaire visant à déterminer les circonstances exactes de l'assassinat de Patrice Lumumba et l'implication éventuelle des responsables politiques belges dans celui-ci"
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Brassinne defended his PhD thesis in political science in 1991 at the
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In 2011, Lumumba's son François
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Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques (1963).
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