Leopold II person
also: Leopold, the Belgian king, the king, Belgian King Leopold
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Leopold II ruled
Congo book_quoted
“by its Belgian rulers for three quarters of a century. In the late 19th century, King Leopold II had carved an empire out of this benighted African territory through a system of forced labor so vicious that Joseph Conrad modeled the colonia…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 23:47
Leopold II overthrew
Congo host_asserted
“and stored it in a box and left it for his daughter. That recently got returned to the family. After Belgian King Leopold established personal sovereignty over Congo in the 1880s, Congolese villagers who did not meet rubber quotas had body …”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 26:22
Mentions (8)
▶ 1:38:06
Uh, but it's all based in Paris. I mean, it's all based in Belgium rather, um, with offices in Paris. And, uh, it all seems to be as far as I can tell, connected to whatever's going on on the DRC. Uh, this is something. And like you said, i…
▶ 22:02
and was obviously labeled a communist. And after he was arrested by the Germans, Lahant had spent the war in captivity. And upon his liberation in 1945, was basically appointed as honorary president of the Belgium communist. Lahant openly a…
▶ 22:32
had held the Congo as a colony for hundreds of years, whom he and the other members of his party considered to be a puppet of the U.S. The opposition to his return was palatable, and the right-wingers, i.e. the…
▶ 24:22
the embassy that he was either a military attache on active duty or he was a member of the CIA, because both of those had a lot of involvement in the stay-behind units. When the king returned to Belgium in August 1950 and was taking his oat…
▶ 26:22
and stored it in a box and left it for his daughter. That recently got returned to the family. After Belgian King Leopold established personal sovereignty over Congo in the 1880s, Congolese villagers who did not meet rubber quotas had body …
▶ 26:51
Mass starvation and disease caused the Congo's population to drop in half in 40 years. By the time Leopold sold the Congo to the Belgium, over half of the people were dead. So I just want to rephrase this. The Belgian king conquered the Con…
▶ 23:47
by its Belgian rulers for three quarters of a century. In the late 19th century, King Leopold II had carved an empire out of this benighted African territory through a system of forced labor so vicious that Joseph Conrad modeled the colonia…
▶ 24:16
that ever disfigured the history of human consciousness. Hands chopped off from Congolese men who refused to work under the colonial master's yoke became a world symbol for Belgium's vile rule. They actually did that to kids too. After Leop…