In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), hate speech against ... ban the denialist organizations, prosecute genocide ideologues based Belgium, publicly denounce Tshisekedi’s alliance with ...

His April 8 State of the Union column "King Leopold's Shadow" about the (francophone) Belgian "genocide" allegedly perpetrated by King Leopold II in the Congo is remarkable -- except for one key ...

Belgium has tried some genocide suspects. However, it continues to pursue an unacceptable policy of hostility against Rwanda, a clear partiality and adherence to the propaganda of the DR Congo ...

This is the highest known figure of genocide in world ... “because he never went to Congo”. That did not mean he did not line his pockets and stuff the Belgian treasury with looted Congolese ...

Belgium later took control in 1916 during ... healthcare and education systems since the 1994 genocide, Congo remains the second-poorest country in the world when measured by GDP per capita.

Belgian troops departed within the genocide's first week ... siding with the DRC over Rwanda in the conflict in eastern Congo and repeats its apology for its colonial legacy.

Nadia Nsayi, a political scientist specialized in Congo, said she sensed “a lot of nervousness in Belgium regarding ... officially described it as genocide for the first time and agreed to ...

Belgium’s King Leopold II took power of Congo in 1885, when European leaders ... which Germany has acknowledged as genocide. Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized for the “excessive violence ...

Some historians refer to this as a genocide. After international protests, Leopold II sold the private colony to the Belgian state in 1908. After the takeover, the country was renamed Congo Belge ...

Belgian troops departed within the genocide’s first week ... siding with the DRC over Rwanda in the conflict in eastern Congo and repeats its apology for its colonial legacy.