Thank you very much for sharing the information about this hidden part of european history! I would have loved if you had also included the economical background to this whole crime, as european industrialization would have never taken off the way it did without letting the congolese people bleed for it.

(The rubber was at Leopold's time crucial for the upcoming car industry/tires AND even more crucial for cables to ensure access to the electricity net by more and more companies and people. )

I personally would argue that almost 80% of belgiums wealth is based stolen ressources from the congo and that reparations are long overdue, although europeans try to make excuses like "oh it was by the king himself, not in our name" similar to all other european genocides worldwide, where non-white-people got exterminated...

The prefer to rob the whole planet, but when the robbed people come knocking on their doors they be like "You dirty refugee... You are too dumb to build your own country and now you wanna steal from us..." :D

Thank you anyway barber78 for your post!