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**ppaelkos** · 11-07-2006, 04:00 AM

Not really caused by the 'country' or its government but mostly one man, the genocide of millions of Congolese by the private recruits of king Leopold II of Belgium. It is important to know that Congo was then Leopold's "private possession" and had no connection with the Belgian state (the monarch was already just a constitutional one with almost no political power). I can't think of anything else... Usually Belgian people had the role of the 'victim' not of the oppressor, as the country only got its independence from foreign powers in 1830.

11-07-2006, 04:00 AM	#5
ppaelkos Join Date Oct 2005 Location Canada Posts 379 Senior Member	Not really caused by the 'country' or its government but mostly one man, the genocide of millions of Congolese by the private recruits of king Leopold II of Belgium. It is important to know that Congo was then Leopold's "private possession" and had no connection with the Belgian state (the monarch was already just a constitutional one with almost no political power). I can't think of anything else... Usually Belgian people had the role of the 'victim' not of the oppressor, as the country only got its independence from foreign powers in 1830.
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