The removal of King Leopold II’s statue took place only hours after Philippe’s letter was published. The monarch, who ruled Belgium from 1865 to 1909, plundered Congo and forced many of its ...

The King of Belgium has sent his “deepest ... Philippe is a distant nephew of Leopold II, who owned what was then called Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908 and ruled its people brutally ...

the equestrian statue of King Leopold II outside Belgium’s royal palace. “Murderer!” the protesters cried as they climbed the statue and waved the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Had the ...

The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian ...

Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium's King ... There is no doubt that Congo's history, and White King, Red Rubber, Black Death are almost too ...

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famine and disease caused the deaths of up to 10 million Congolese during just the first 23 years of Belgium's rule from 1885 to 1960, when King Leopold II ruled the Congo Free State as a personal ...

De Croo hailed the six-day trip as a “historic moment.” Belgium’s King Leopold II took power of Congo in 1885, when European leaders carved up Africa into imperial holdings. The king was ...

Belgium's colonization of Congo was one of the harshest imposed by the European powers that ruled most of Africa from the late 19th into the mid-20th centuries. King Leopold II governed King ...

famine and disease caused the deaths of up to 10 million Congolese during just the first 23 years of Belgium’s rule from 1885 to 1960, when King Leopold II ruled the Congo Free State as a ...