Protesters in the Congo attacked the historically significant ... January 28. Under King Leopold II, Belgium brutalised the country with unrestrained evil between 1885 and 1908, using extreme ...
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British artist chosen to ‘reinterpret’ controversial statue of Belgium’s King Leopold IIHew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside ... In fact, he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute ...
On the political front, King Leopold II exploited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1885 as his private property, and after his death, he bequeathed it to the Kingdom of Belgium.
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