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21 wrz 2016 · In the 23 years (1885-1908) Leopold II ruled the Congo he massacred 10 million Africans by cutting off their hands and genitals, flogging them to death, starving them into forced labor, holding children ransom, and burning villages. The ironic part of this story is that Leopold II committed these atrocities by not even setting foot in the Congo.
10 sty 2017 · A portion of King Leopold’s letter The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915.
Between 1904-1908, the photographs of Alice Harris (1870-1970) were a chief component in efforts to raise European and North American public awareness about atrocities committed in King Leopold’s colony, l’Etat Indépendent du Congo (or the Congo Free State).
King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline. Even before his accession to the throne of Belgium in 1865, the future king Leopold II began lobbying leading Belgian politicians to create a colonial empire in the Far East or in Africa, which would expand and enhance ...
23 maj 2024 · In short, “After his death, the ‘Civilizing King’ became a national and colonial icon whose image (in uniform, with a flowing white beard) was omnipresent—a slightly sinister, this-worldly God the Father haunting the imagination of generations of Belgian schoolchildren” (Viaene 2008, 789).
10 paź 2012 · The most famous account of Leopold’s Congo is Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness (1899). With its grisly, bloody imagery, one might imagine that Conrad exaggerated the awfulness of the regime. In fact the cold details of missionary journals make even more horrifying reading.
12 cze 2020 · Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State. Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand...
