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And again, basic stuff. I'm not going to educate a child or someone that had education on a child's level. Who TF knows, maybe you've been thought creationism in your weirdo backward country.
Oh. Maybe you didn't know...
A Belgian lecturing about atrocities and empires being forgotten is particularly humorous.
Then again, I suppose the Congo Free State wasn't technically a genocide because it was economically motivated. Not based on national, ethnic, racial, or religious interests, just money.
God. That's like It not being technically murder because you kept them alive and in agony.
Typical Belgian asshole, which is also typical of the descendants of European fuckwads who cried instead of fighting back against the Reich and Fascism. I'm sure you pricks will be looking for an external savior again in no time, meanwhile the rest of the world can't find you on a map. Can your military even afford to drive a tank to the border?
Pretty rich bullshit looking at how your cowardice sticks out like a sore thumb.
Looks like our tiny backwater country friends education missed a couple of pages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
In one, a man sits on a low platform looking at a dismembered small foot and small hand. They belonged to his five-year-old daughter, who was later killed when her village did not produce sufficient rubber. She was not unique - chopping off the limbs of enslaved Congolese was a routine form of retribution when Leopold II's quotas were not met.
Colonial administrators also kidnapped orphaned children from communities and transported them to "child colonies" to work or train as soldiers. Estimates suggest more than 50% died there.
Killings, famine and disease combined to cause the deaths of perhaps 10 million people, though historians dispute the true number.
Leopold II may never have set foot there, but he poured the profits into Belgium and into his pockets.
He built the Africa Museum in the grounds of his palace at Tervuren, with a "human zoo" in the grounds featuring 267 Congolese people as exhibits.
Let's look through US history for our child slave soldier colonies.
But first modern Belgiums take on its past!
former Belgian foreign minister Louis Michel and the father of future prime minister Charles Michel, called Leopold "a hero with ambitions for a small country like Belgium".
In a TV debate this week, a former president of the Free University of Brussels, Hervé Hasquin, argued there were "positive aspects" to colonisation, listing the health system, infrastructure, and primary education he said Belgium brought to Central Africa