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2 maj 2008 · Although eventually some Belgian women were raped and a handful of Whites killed in the course of the the disorders caused by the July 1960 mutiny, most of what is in this pamphlet is false or not verifiable by the official Belgian inquiries about the mutiny.
14 sie 2017 · In pictures: Confronting Belgium’s colonial past. Decades after Belgium ended its colonial rule in Congo, and a century after the atrocities committed in Congo Free State, Belgians are slowly beginning to reconcile with this troubled history.
26 kwi 2019 · A photograph shared thousands of times in multiple posts shows a black child standing on a platform, surrounded by white men holding a rope. Captions claim the picture shows Belgians preparing to...
From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities were particularly associated with the labour policies, enforced by colonial administrators, used to collect natural rubber for export.
A team of researchers has begun to sift through the thousands of documents hurriedly transported out of the Belgian Congo at independence and Ruanda-Urundi shortly thereafter; likewise, it is...
3 lut 2021 · In photos from June 2020, Monique Bitu Bingi is seen holding a picture of herself as a young girl. She is part of a group of biracial women who were taken from their families as children in...
The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
