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A man, stares at the hands and feet of his five-year old child, cut off by King Leopold II’s Force Publique soldiers in the Congo.
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Only he knows the agony he feels at this exact moment.
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And you know what makes it even worse, he can’t do a thing to avenge his child.

In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a state under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of the Belgians. These atrocities were particularly associated with the labour policies used to collect natural rubber for export.

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Yep, those are severed hands the men are holding, probably of a family member.

Together with epidemic disease, famine, and a falling birth rate caused by these disruptions, the atrocities contributed to a sharp decline in the Congolese population. The magnitude of the population fall over the period is disputed, with modern estimates ranging from 1.5 million to 13 million.
Here’s the colonizer
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Kulikuwa na this colonial enforcer Leon Fievez alikuwa nicknamed the devil. A Catholic Priest had this to say about him:

"As a young man, I saw [Fiévez’s] soldier Molili, then guarding the village of Boyeka, take a net, put ten arrested natives in it, attach big stones to the net, and make it tumble into the river … Rubber causes these torments; that’s why we no longer want to hear its name spoken. Soldiers made young men kill or rape their own mothers and sisters.’

And yet we’re always told of the evils of Hitler. But he had nothing on King Leopold II.
Nowhere in the world would you find a monument in honor of Adolf Hitler.

Meanwhile in Belgium,
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The vast majority of Africans, Belgians and Europeans don’t know anything about King Leopards Atrocities in the Congo free state.

Its all been systematically covered up

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Man Leopold was a sadist. And the reason that kid’s hands got chopped is juu the father didn’t meet his monthly quota of rubber. Yani leta vikapu tatu. Buda akapata 2 and a half. That was grounds for decapitation or maiming and the guys that were doing the chopping was fellow Africans who were mostly cannibals backed by Belgian troops and mercenaries.

The poor tribesmen didn’t stand a chance and also because everyone was out foraging for that precious resource, the effect was that it became harder and harder to collect a full quota of rubber and so the besieged Africans had to travel further and further into the jungles to find new growths of rubber. They would sometimes forsake life and death obligations like growing food crops and tilling their land for weeks or months all for the sake of meeting that obligatory quota of rubber or else you or your family member would meet the same fate as that kid’s hands. Africans were being forced to mind a crop that they couldn’t eat or process.

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Yet Brussels to Bakongo is like LONDON to Naija. The atrocities were through the roof

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Congo Free State was like a nightmarescape for the indigenous people man. You have Leopold’s Forces on one side consisting of mostly cannibals - men of the stone age armed with nineteenth century weapons. Barbarians who ate in the evening those whom they had slain during the day and Arab slavers on the other side who had been making major profits from the sale of African slaves, all jostling for territory with Leopold’s men even attempting to elect an Arab leader as Free State Governor just to reach a compromise so both parties can get on with the business of plundering the Congo. African natives were viewed as only good for picking rubber, getting sold as slaves, being on the menu or joining either side and fwacking over their own race.

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In spite of all that , you all go rushing to seat at the back of a bus to attend the funeral of an old lady who’s family was part of an institution that was responsible for all this suffering …

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No wonder the white man does not respect us …
Bure Kabisa …

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Hehehe. He seems rather thrilled back there. Like a kid going to Disneyland.

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Leopold himself run a serious PR campaign. There were journalists reporting his misdeeds. But he paid off newspapers, government authorities and world bodies as a whole. There are documentaries covering his actions.

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Diabolical. And he got away with it. Missionaries, traders, travellers and consuls, all corroborated the reports of the atrocities being committed down there but Europe was either slow to react, didn’t want to believe it or just didn’t give a damn enough to do something about it. Thank God for today’s connectivity and instant reporting that can get people to atleast sympathise. Back then you was on your own bila lube.

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Seriously …

Can you see Nyerere , Ghadaffi , Mandela , Magufuli , Sankara or Kagame sitting at the back of that bus … ???

And ask yourself…
WHY were white royalty and leadership not put on those buses …???

We really need to respect ourselves …

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Kweli kabisa. No way a Biden or German Chancellor riding to Westminster in the back of a Greyhound. :smiley:

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I wish Riggy G was in that picture too grinning AF to complete the comic effect. Those guys hapo mbele yake look like they steal cars for a living.

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Like this prezzo:

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:smiley:

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Funny how how most of the people who criticize Ruto for this on this forum were staunch Azimio supporters. I wonder if there would have been as much criticism if it was Raila (who is in the ANGLICAN CHURCH btw).

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The last time you checked he was a sorcerer.

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That’s y it makes no sense African wide poosied mature woman admiring whitemen cum to a point of refusing to be married in Hope of getting married by these barbarians

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Leopold alikuwa shetani

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Who did the actual butchering?

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yenyewe negroes have been through hell

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