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[–] SebuttYopick [S] ago 

Many say Dutroux scandal in Belgium connects to the Royal family. Leopold murdered more than 10 million people in Congo and exploited the country and its sources. He donated most of his property to Belgium in order to preserve it. Leopold ruled from 1865 and for the next 44 years until his death. Often times people know Belgium for it’s chocolate, french fries, and beer.. But what about the mass murder of somewhere in between 2 and 15 million Congolese natives? In 1865 the most brutal ruler Belgium has ever seen came to power. King Leopold II would rule the Belgians for 44 relentless years, holding the longest reign in the history of Belgian monarchy, and administering what was possibly the largest international scandal of it’s time period. Also original thread https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2334971 and here https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2336548 plus https://voat.co/v/pizzagateuncensored/2336544 and then he says 'I'm familiar with the details of the Dutroux scandal in Belgium.' .... The horrors of the Congo Free State had a purpose—they were meant to scare people into working. The Belgians didn’t just want to slaughter Africans wholesale. They wanted to make the Africans work without paying them for it. The Belgians used psychological terror as a way to motivate the Congolese. In some places, this meant doing some horrible things to the workers’ families.

Women were often kidnapped from villages that didn’t provide enough rubber. They were held hostage until the chief could meet his quota. Even then, though, the women often stayed prisoners. When the quota was met, the men of the village had to buy back their wives by giving up some of their livestock.

There was no limit to how horrible this could get. After being sent to raid a town for not meeting its quota, one African soldier reported that his European commander had ordered him to make an example of the town. “He ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members,” the soldier said, “and to hang the women and children on the palisade in the form of a cross.” King Leopold II - The Man who killed more than 10 million people? Mark Twain wrote a pamphlet in 1905, titling it “King Leopold’s Soliloguy”. The book was published in four languages, English, German, French and Italian. In the pamphlet, Twain used political satire to criticize Leopold and his rulling over the free state of Congo. Writer Mark Twain wrote of Belgium and mostly focused on the approach that King Leopold II considered himself to be a person sent by God to evangelize the state of Congo. Leopold claimed he did not use government money for his personal benefits, and that those claims are made by nonbelievers. His sole purpose was to bring Christianity to Congo, and anyone who criticizes him is doing blasphemy. Leopold himself comes across as a cartoon-strip megalomaniac -- a mad, greedy king obsessed since adolescence with the idea of running a colony of his own and intent throughout his career on covering his lust for money and real estate in honeyed talk of philanthropy and human rights.

As Adam Hochschild's disturbing new book on the Belgian Congo makes clear, however, Kurtz was based on several historical figures, and the horror Conrad described was all too real. In fact, Hochschild suggests, "Heart of Darkness" stands as a remarkably "precise and detailed" portrait of King Leopold's Congo in 1890, just as one of history's most heinous acts of mass killing was getting under way. As for Henry Morton Stanley, the world-famous explorer whom Leopold retained as his agent, he is depicted as a Dickensian bully and chronic liar who allowed his own monumental celebrity to be used by Leopold for the worst possible ends. He eventually persuaded hundreds of Congo basin chiefs to sign over their land and their rights to the king of the Belgians. Under the reign of terror instituted by King Leopold II of Belgium (who ran the Congo Free State as his personal fief from 1885 to 1908), the population of the Congo was reduced by half -- as many as 8 million Africans (perhaps even 10 million, in Hochschild's opinion) lost their lives. When King Leopold got the legal right to take control of the Congo, he started bleeding it dry for profits. Stanley had reported temples of ivory, and people had found caches of rubber there. So Leopold was determined to make it profitable. He turned two-thirds of the country into his own private land. The people there were forced to work for him. Cannibalism was used in some places to keep people in line. It’s difficult to say exactly how often this happened. But one man reported that when someone was recorded as “shot” in his area, it also meant that the victim had been eaten. The worst for this were the Zappo Zaps. They were a particularly vicious tribe whom the Belgians recruited as soldiers. They kept people in line by cannibalizing their bodies. This horror upon horror Was Done By A 'Humanitarian Organization' Leopold cut his knife in and sliced up the Congo—backed by the donations of concerned citizens. Many people say Dutroux scandal in Belgium connect with Prince, Queen and Kings.