>ruthlessly exploit, kill, maim, and enslave natives, reducing population by 50% (10 million dead) >decades later give them their independence >decide you don't like their democratically elected leader because he wants to actually have the major companies and natural resources to be owned by Congolese people >have him killed and a brutal authoritarian dictator installed in his place, destroying any chance for your former colonial subjects to have a functioning state >deal with all of this by pretending it never happened and burying all records of it
Is Belgium low-key the worst country in the history of the world?
Who cares about Mongols, it isn't like they killed *that* many peoples.
Eli Ortiz
But they were le tolerant of religions XDD
Austin Martin
Congo is still better off today than pre colonization
Lucas King
>Second Congo War >OP is talking about the foundation of the Congo in 1960
Yuros out
David Stewart
Remember that one time when entire human population was reduced to 40 breeding pairs?
Carter Stewart
I believe some people say that the Belgians created an ethnic divide between Hutu and Tutsi people's through their colonisation of Rwanda and Burundi. The legacy left by this divide was embedded in the Rwandan genocide
Hunter Lopez
If you're talking about Lumumba you better not be American, 'cause the CIA did that shit.
Thomas Roberts
Belgian pilots flew the hit team into the country and a Belgian commanded the firing squad. The CIA and the French were definitely involved, but so was Belgium.
Luis Russell
>8000 is a genocide
Fucking Bosniaks
Nathaniel Parker
>In an increasingly volatile mood, he demanded that the UN force be used to expel Belgian troops. After meeting him in Leopoldville on 16 July, the head of the UN operation in the Congo, Ralph Bunche, an African-American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his United Nations work, reported that 'Lumumba was crazy and that he reacted like a child'. The following day, Lumumba issued an ultimatum threatening that if the UN did not remove all Belgian troops from the Congo by midnight on 19 July, then he would invite the Soviet Union to intervene
What did he mean by this?
Anthony Lewis
How many people died is irrelevant in determining if something is a genocide or not
Isaac Scott
Why couldn't we go extinct
Jaxson Cooper
Must be shameful to have the major city called "Leopoldville". It's like if Israel's capital was "Hitlerston".
I realize it's Kinshasa today, I'm just saying.
Eli Barnes
This graph is totally bullshit.
It should at least show which country was the perpetrator of those deaths. The Soviet deaths should be attributed to Germany and the North Korean deaths to the USA, and it should be at least 20% in 2 years (as admitted by Air Force General Curtis LeMay).
Where the fuck is India during the British colonial period and Indonesia under the US backed Suharto?
Ethan Long
If by "Created" you mean "the Belgian government took an existing ethnic divide, gave one side the means to do what they'd always wanted to do, and had to step away and as such weren't capable of stopping what would come about", then yes, I guess you could say that. Although it might just be better if you said the Belgian government took an existing ethnic divide, gave one side the means to do what they'd always wanted to do, and had to step away and as such weren't capable of stopping what would come about"