To: nickcarraway
Absolutely. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a great exposition about the evil of King Leopold.
The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/37712
Arguably Leopold and his Belgian crooks performed the first big democide, murder by government, of the 20th Century.
12 posted on
02/24/2021 4:09:58 PM PST by
FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
Good point. I'll have to read the Conan Doyle. Of course, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was about it. But it was written on voyage Conrad took well before it hit it's nadir.
To: FreedomPoster
Then there was what the Brits did to the Boers.
26 posted on
02/24/2021 4:26:34 PM PST by
dfwgator
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To: FreedomPoster
One of the most notorious Nazis was a Belgian, Léon Degrelle.
42 posted on
02/24/2021 5:06:36 PM PST by
dfwgator
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To: FreedomPoster
As far as I’m concerned, Belgium shouldn’t even be a country, should just be divided between France and The Netherlands.
45 posted on
02/24/2021 5:10:12 PM PST by
dfwgator
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