King Leopold II of Belgium Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/king-leopold-ii-of-belgium/ Arts and African History Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:52:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Silent Holocaust: The Belgian Genocide of the Congo https://consciousness.co.za/the-silent-holocaust-the-belgian-genocide-of-the-congo/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-silent-holocaust-the-belgian-genocide-of-the-congo/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:43:30 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=9797 Source: http://originalblackthought.blogspot.com/ In our reflection upon the grand history and innumerable events of humanity’s past we are inevitably forced to once again encounter the horrors and inhuman transgressions that our forebearers have made against others as well as the transgressions that have been made against our forebearers by others. In contemporary history there is perhaps no [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-silent-holocaust-the-belgian-genocide-of-the-congo/feed/ 0 7 Of the Most Ruthless European Colonialists https://consciousness.co.za/7-of-the-most-ruthless-european-colonialists/ https://consciousness.co.za/7-of-the-most-ruthless-european-colonialists/#respond Sun, 10 May 2015 13:28:13 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=9576 Source: AtlantaBlackstar.com When we think of the evil atrocities that have been committed against humanity, one person is frequently called the most evil to ever live, Hitler.  But why is his name the only one synonymous with evil? When you kill more than 10 million Africans or Native Americans why are you not symbolized as evil? Europe [...]

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