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The Belgian Commission on Belgium's colonial past was a failure as politicians didn't want to agree on an apology about the terror under, mainly, king Leopold II's reign in Congo, although later also Belgium didn't always act correctly. Originally an apology was planned although without compensation , but even this was too much.  Belgium doesn't apologise for its past in its colonies It is beyond believe that Belgians still don't want to condemn officially and with the strongest possible wording the crimes, the genocide committed under their second king Leopold II who allowed the mutilation and dead of men, women, even children when they didn't work hard enough, and to use the violence as an example for others to work harder. Estimates are that up to 10 million people died under king Leopold II's rule over Congo as his personal property; he should never have taken that land. Remember Hitler's 6 million Jews, and most Germans are rightly ashamed of ...

Leopold II in Congo Belgium has a terrible human rights track record because of its second king Leopold II (1835 - 1909) during whose reign millions of people in Congo died. People may say he is not personally responsible but the same can be said of Hitler. However, Leopold II could have ruled only Belgium but this he considered too small and thus he lobbied to gain Congo for himself and succeeded on the condition he would treat its people correct, something he refused to do from day one. Therefore, he is responsible as he actively searched for this expansion to enrich himself so he could enlarge his own glory in his kingdom Belgium with neglect of his "subjects" in Congo. And people in those days had already a conscience because the king had to replace the first ambassador who refused to collaborate to expand the king's personal property.   To have an impression of the terror Leopold ii allowed in Congo is a picture in this article that shows a black father who l...

A month or two ago I heard an interview on the radio about Congo and its first PM Lumumba who was assassinated on order of western countries, including Belgium that was its past colonizer. The interview The person who was interviewed seemed to be quite right-wing as he didn't seem to understand some of the nonsense he said. For instance, he included PM Lumumba in the same list as other leaders such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, Romania's Ceausescu and other dictators, all killed he said because the West didn't want them (this should include "any longer" as they became uncontrollable and thus unwanted). The person added that PM Lumumba was killed only months after taking office and thus before he could become a dictator whereby the respondent seemed to suggest PM Lumumba would have become a dictator if he wasn't murdered, thus one can conclude that his assassination was an act of mercy. He continued to explain that even...