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Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past
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 ...
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King Leopold II of Belgium
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Belgian king expresses 'deepest regrets' for DR Congo colonial abuses
King Leopold II gave up direct control in 1908, and Belgium formally annexed the country, renaming it the Belgian Congo. Colonisers continued to use Africans as wage labour and tried to turn it ...
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a ...
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The ‘Scramble for Africa’
The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...
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King Leopold's Ghost
The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast ...
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Pope Francis in Belgium: ‘Crisis of faith’ in the West requires a return to the Gospel
Inspired after a visit to Paris’ Sacred Heart basilica, Belgium’s King Leopold II called for the construction of the basilica. The king himself laid the first stone in 1905, but the basilica ...