200 Belgian Officers managed to kill 10 million Congolese

>200 Belgian Officers managed to kill 10 million Congolese

Only low IQ morons would believe that the Congo genocide happened.

It did happen but it was the case of niggers being niggers, the Belgians did nothing but count the rubber shipments. It was niggers who chopped off those hands and killed other nigs.

It wasn't genocide. But mass murder happened, and it was a direct consequence of colonial policies.

Prove to me that limb mutation was part of Leopold’s policy.

Statistics for hand chopping only popped up after the belgians introduced maths and writing to the damn country. The congolese were already chopping people up. The belgians only kept records of crime.

>trying to meme this after your attempt at shilling got called out as the source you provided outright admitted it was alt-right, not academic, and nothing on it was peer reviewed
whoa...

>another Belgian genocide was a hoax thread

Krauts did nothing wrong by raping Belgium

100 Special Forces soldiers also conquered Afghanistan.

this is your brain in propaganda

That’s not even a decent comparison.

The belgians outsourced security to the congolese, most of the hand cutting and shit was done by local tribes given the authority to police others.

Natives did most of it ... But it was Belgium* encouraging it, arming the perpetrators, setting the policy and not giving a fuck as they polluted one of the largest river basins in the world.

And of course machine gun and cavalry mounted colonial infantry fresh from European warfare against musket wielding natives who largely engaged in small scale slave taking. Except both sides had them, just the Euros had both and the cash to pay for a number of them.

*It wasn't intially owned by Belguim, instead by the King. The free company was the worst incidents but afterwards wasn't good.

>niggity nigger nigger nig nog nigger nigger niggity nigger nigger XDDD!!!!!

That never happened, Taliban got overthrown by Northern Alliance. Americans were just providing support with air strikes.

>World history would have changed at all if any Congolese that died had lived instead

History would have been different. Not because of anything the Congolese did of course, but it still would have been different. The whole "Hands for Leopold" thing was just the last straw when it came to the idea that Europeans and Africans could work together in a manner that would eventually "civilize" the Africans. Any further ventures in Africa were tainted by this event.

Why would the Belgians kill their only labor force? And more importantly, do you have any evidence that mass killings were part of Leopold's policy? It seems to me that the Force Publique was just a poorly regulated military force that committed horrible atrocities because they knew they could get away with it.

Well there is direct photo evidence, which retards like OP didn't account for. And they were killing them as part of their labor policy. Every village had to provide a rubber quota which was arbitrarily set, not on local conditions. If not met them kill em. Because people were still believers in over the top punishment. And because they were money grubbing, the right hand would be cut as a kill proof.

So everybody had a incentive to get hands. The villages to give as a replacement for the rubber they couldn't produce. The troops so they could use the bullets poaching instead of killing. And the colonial authorities to explain shortfalls.

And then communication had a slow turnaround and who cares about them, until the Europuan and American papers brought attention to the issue.

Then the other issues added to the death toll (rough estimate of 5-10 million people) from forced labor on non rubber stuff, porters, continued fighting to secure the colony, new diseases from Europe and random fuckery by the army.

>Congo genocide

Nobody believes that the term "genocide" applies here you dumbfucks, Leopold didn't go to the Congo with the intent of chopping the hands of every negro he saw, most academics will tell you to use the term "forced labor".

>for no reputable historian of the Congo has made charges of genocide; a forced labor system, although it may be equally deadly, is different.

go read King Leopold's Ghost if you want more information.

>Out of context pictures proves that limb mutilation was part of Leopold's policy

You're an idiot, user, you really are.

>genocide
modern term that just doesn't really apply in history that well, but large scale slaughter did occur through institutional action
forced labour combined with unreasonable production quotas and draconian penalties lead to pretty greasy consequences, whichcan be seen in the belgian congo as well as early spanish colonization of the Caribbean

There were atrocities in the Congo but like always it's the case of Anglo fucking shits overblowing and hypermoralizing something they've been doing themselves too in order to demonize their enemy.

>burn witches for 200 years like madmen
BUT SPANISH INQUISITION WAS THE WORST THING EVER!
>massacre indigenous people in the colonies they colonized for resource exploitation
BUT LEOPOLD WAS A MONSTER, FUCK BELGIUM!
>live in a multiethnic empire with Anglos subjugating other peoples
BUT AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND RUSSIA NEED TO BALKANIZE, ALL ETHNIC GROUPS DESERVE INDEPENDENCE!
>conquer half the planet, commit massacres and genocides by starvation
BUT WE HAD TO STOP THOSE EVIL GERMANS BECAUSE HOLOCAUST AND EXPANSIONISM!

>niggity nigger nigger nig nog nigger nigger niggity nigger nigger XDDD!!!!!

>sourced evidence is dumb

Tell me, what is weather like, inside your arse

The only thing you've proven is that limb mutilation occurred in the Congo, which no one here denies. The problem here is that there's no evidence that Leopold II encouraged this behavior.

AYE! BY SAINT ANTHONY!

IT WAS A MASSACRE! CONGOLESE BABIES WERE FED TO LEOPARDS!

It was the policy of the belgian colonial authorities in the free state to demand evidence of kills for every bullet fired in the form of hands, this is widespread common knowledge i dont know why yoh find it so hard to comprehend

Leopold frankly didn't care what kind of horrors went on in the Congo Free State. He wanted to make Belgium a great power at whatever cost, as long as the colony produced massive profits (that Leopold hid from the belgian government) westerners in Congo were free to decapitate locals for fun or take hostages to force entire villages to collect rubber instead of feeding themselves.