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minus-squarelntllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year ago“we’re sorry” If you’re actually sorry, make ammends. Give the people of Congo your wealth Mr. King man.
minus-squarerahmadlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoBelgium is the place that really needs to do right by the Congo. The Brits too, but their laundry list is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.
minus-squareusernamesAreTrickylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoEDIT: oh I see you were asking about why the Dutch king not about what happened in the congo Not OP, but King Leopold II (who was a former king of Belgium) was absolutely brutal and ruthless in his colonial rule over congo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State
“we’re sorry”
If you’re actually sorry, make ammends. Give the people of Congo your wealth Mr. King man.
Belgium is the place that really needs to do right by the Congo. The Brits too, but their laundry list is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.
Dutch, not Belgian.
Why Congo?
EDIT: oh I see you were asking about why the Dutch king not about what happened in the congo
Not OP, but King Leopold II (who was a former king of Belgium) was absolutely brutal and ruthless in his colonial rule over congo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State