Titled Explaining African Colonialism, it featured the hosts, Rudyard Lynch and Austin Padgett, speaking about the time when King Leopold II occupied the Congo. According to the official website ...

140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic ...

The king’s severed head is a nod to ... power symbol but also one of most chilling aspects of Leopold’s vicious plunder of the Congo. Belgian colonialists infamously cut off the hands of ...

First, they partitioned the Congo region with Belgian King Leopold receiving Congo as his personal property. Second, they agreed on the procedure for claiming territories and legitimising those ...

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium.

After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the ... are decided about “Hands off Belgium!”, undecided about “Hands off the Belgian Congo!” Contact us at letters@ ...

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

King Leopold III of Belgium returned to Brussels on July 22, 1950, after six years of exile. BELGA/AFP Remaining the king of the Belgians at all costs, even under Nazi domination, was the goal of ...

The sudden appearance of the Belgian claims in the struggle to prevent ... in any way due to the fact that King Leopold, as reported, is acting In the interest of British bankers who desire ...

Leopold III was crowned the King of Belgium in 1934. In September 1939, when World War II broke out, Britain and France asked Belgium to join them. But Leopold and his government refused stating ...