As much as other European colonialists have fucked up Africa over the years, I don’t think any one person can have more blame for that than Leopold II of Belgium. Just ran the place like his own personal genocidal fiefdom.
I know about him! He’s the hot dude who married Kate after making all the Otis elevators stop. And then he jumped through timelines with burn-victim Van Wilder.
It literally was his own personal fiefdom because he directly owned it. It wasn’t until all the bad press came out that the Belgian government forced him to hand it over to Belgium proper. The Belgian government then proceeded to do a light form of Leopold’s system: forced labor via imprisonment but without the incentive to chop off limbs.
As much as other European colonialists have fucked up Africa over the years, I don’t think any one person can have more blame for that than Leopold II of Belgium. Just ran the place like his own personal genocidal fiefdom.
Dude was one of the biggest scumbags in human history, but not many people know about him.
Behind the Bastards did a multiple episodes on him. Yeah, fuck that guy.
I know about him from “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
I know about him! He’s the hot dude who married Kate after making all the Otis elevators stop. And then he jumped through timelines with burn-victim Van Wilder.
It literally was his own personal fiefdom because he directly owned it. It wasn’t until all the bad press came out that the Belgian government forced him to hand it over to Belgium proper. The Belgian government then proceeded to do a light form of Leopold’s system: forced labor via imprisonment but without the incentive to chop off limbs.