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Vor 3 Tagen · The atrocities that they committed against the Belgian population as they marched across the country came to be known as the Rape of Belgium. Around 6,500 civilians were killed in Belgium and northern France by the German army in the summer of 1914 under the policy of terror (schrecklichkeit).
5. Mai 2024 · The skull of a Congolese leader, Lusinga Iwa Ng’ombe, who fought back against Belgian colonial invaders in the late 19th century, ended up in a box at the Institute for Natural Sciences in...
21. Apr. 2024 · The UN had a peacekeeping force in Rwanda, but on 7 April ten Belgian soldiers sent to guard the prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana were murdered (as was she). The leader of the UN force, Roméo...
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Vor 4 Tagen · As Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, the Belgian investigators still have 49 cases open against alleged genocide perpetrators.
7. Mai 2024 · In Belgium, the focal points of the rage were the statues of King Leopold II who presided over the pillaging of Congo’s natural resources and the violent exploitation of its population. The sovereign’s rule was brutal, even by the standards of 19th-century imperialism.
Vor 2 Tagen · Belgian forces took control of Rwanda and Burundi in 1917 during World War I, and from 1926 began a policy of more direct colonial rule. The Belgians modernised the Rwandan economy, but Tutsi supremacy remained, leaving the Hutu disenfranchised.
29. Apr. 2024 · Finally, indignation among people in Britain and other parts of Europe grew so great that Leopold was forced to transfer his authority in the Congo to the Belgian government. In 1908 the Congo Free State was abolished and replaced by the Belgian Congo, a colony controlled by the Belgian parliament.
