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And I've read articles that challenged that generally accepted story.

Oh well, if you've seen articles ...

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And that is supposed to mean what? Done by the Belgians? One history of the Belgian Congo was written by a German who hated the Belgians. Many of his accounts of Belgian atrocities were never verified.

Checked on, many of the atrocities were done by Africans to other Africans. Like today. Belgium does nothing in the Congo today. Yet the black Congolese have slaughtered each other quite happily for known history.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The Belgians were probably not real kind to the Congolese, but I doubt they were as nasty as they were depicted.