Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0069050Revised

Event record

Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.

Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.

Date
3 Nov 1960
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.

Felix Mounie was the leader of the political movement Union du Peuple Camerounnais (UPC). The UPC was a major political force demanding the end of UN Trusteeship over Cameroon and full independence of the country. Mounie was poisoned by a reserve officer of the French Intelligence Agency, William Bechtel. He was a qualified doctor and had been under the government’s watch for years. In 1991, the parliament of Cameroon declared Felix Mounie a National Hero.

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

How we know this

  1. 01Toward Freedom Political Assassination: Lead up to African Independences [online] Available at: https://towardfreedom.com [Accessed on 26 September 2013]
  2. 02Britannica Felix-Roland Moumie [online] Available at: https://global.britannica.com [Accessed on 26 September 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, November 1). Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0069050

South African History Online (2011) 'Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.', South African History Online, 1 November. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0069050 (Accessed: 5 August 2026).

South African History Online, Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0069050, (accessed 5 August 2026).

"Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.." South African History Online, 1 Nov. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0069050. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Felix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.." South African History Online. November 1, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0069050.

Further reading

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →