Additional heinous crimes included strangulations, slashing and hacking members to death, and starvation ... a national referendum over whether King Leopold III could return to the country ...

Here it is, as well, keep your eyes on the prize, Katanga, the Southern region of the Congo, home to the Shinkolobwe mine.

That book exposed the depravity of King Leopold’s possession of the Congo, even as it indulged ... physicality of this moment between life and death, when the brain and the body are at their ...

He gave an example of 1885 when Belgian King Leopold claimed ... to the people of Congo,” but instead subjected people to brutal forced labour, mutilations, and the death of millions.

And while Price Demidov was fined for the deaths as well as for evading ... more than half of the ivory in those pianos came from King Leopold’s Congo, where atrocities against indigenous ...

Since the creation of the Congo Free State in 1885, as the private fiefdom of Belgium’s King Leopold II, the country’s administrative apparatus has been little more than a vehicle for accumulation. It ...

UNIA owned modest clubhouses and encouraged branches to provide mutual aid to members in need, including small loans, death benefits ... than when the Belgium King Leopold II claimed to be the founder ...

For example, the Asantehene, or king of the Asante Empire ... and rubber farms in the Congo all showed control and mistreatment of people. The effects of colonialism transcended the mere loss ...