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‘A Training School for Elephants’ Review: Stomping Through Africa
The Belgian ruler Leopold II had elaborate plans to extract resources from Africa. Pachyderms played a part.
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MASSACRE IN CONGO STATE; Missionaries Say Villages Have Been Burned, Many People Slain, and Some Eaten by State Troops.
The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in this city received letters to-day from the Rev. L.C. Vass and the Rev. H.P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church stationed at Luebo, Congo Free State ...
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The 67-year long fight to deny citizenship to the DR Congo Tutsi must end
From 1885 up to 1908, all the Congolese from the north to the south, east to the west, as well as the country were the properties of King Leopold II under the Congo Free State. From 1908 to 1960 ...
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BELGIAN PARTY MASSACRED.; Cannibals Capture an Outpost in Congo Free State and Feast on Bodies of Defenders.
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Who is Belgium's Leopold II? History 102 episode Elon Musk found "interesting" claims king's Congo casualties were "falsified by a leftist academic"
According to the official website of National Geographic, Leopold was known for forming the Congo Free State after taking over the African land. He received financial support from the Belgian ...
The US says Congo and Rwanda submit a draft peace proposal
Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end fighting in resource-rich ...