The Congolese Holocaust
Black History Podcast
English - March 08, 2016 04:28 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 132 ratingsHistory history black african education consciousness diaspora Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After the Berlin Conference of 1884 the 905,000 square miles of the Belgian Congo [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo] became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. His genocidal exploitation of the territory, particularly the rubber trade, caused many deaths and much suffering. Murder, rape and mutilation were common.