In the last years of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, King Leopold II of Belgium ruled the Congo Free State with a tyranny that was peculiarly brutal even by the cruel and deeply racist standards of European colonialism in Africa. He ran the country – now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo – as a personal fiefdom, looting ivory and rubber and murdering millions before the international community stepped in to demand he bequeath the country to the Belgian state.
So something very few Belgians alive had anything to do with or any control over?
It’s in our best interest to not ignore facts, so history does not repeat itself as tragedy, Otherwise, history comes for us all. BelgiumGenocide.
That does seem a little belated given Conrad’s Heart of Darkness first appeared in 1899...
When is Turkey going to begin to face brutal colonial legacy of the Ottoman Empire? AntiWhite's non-whites are as helpless as any other animal. No one blames a baboon or a hippo or a non-white for anything.
How about UK facing the horrible crimes perpetrated by the East India Company and later on by the Crown in India? Millions dead, looting et al
This guy made Hitler look like a cartoon character.
Its about time. He was a monster
Sabes aveses no eres tan bueno entodo
His face doesn't look like that of a barbaric, savage, racist, murderous, pilfering killer who had an ice-block for a heart, anyhoo looks have always been decieving
he didn't treat the Congolese any worse than they treated each other he didn't treat them any worse than they treat each other now
It’s about d**n time.
Reparations yo!
Probably the most evil man ever
Reparations needed
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