Belgium the country that committed the greatest genocide of humanity ever seen

Throughout our history, we have seen the capacity of the human being and imaginative that has to harm our neighbor or take advantage of our neighbor cases as for pure pleasure and morbid keep other people caged and treat it like animals that are cases of the human zoos or that in Tanzania kill people with albinism in many atrocities, nevertheless this case is very particular that we will see it carefully.

It all started when at the end of the 19th century during the reign of Leopold II, a Belgian king who appropriated a country called the Congo, you thought it was a conquest that they were at war entering by force or that it was a territory inherited by their father ... wrong nothing like that, this goes even further than fact, it is only enough to convince the international community that if they gave him the territory of the Congo he would protect the inhabitants of the networks of Arab slave traders, however What he wanted was to make himself a colony and exploit every last drop of his resources.

But how do I achieve this? Well this king indeed created a very humanitarian image of him, so much so that he financed several charitable associations to combat slavery in West Africa, paid for the trips of the missionaries to those regions, convinced a select group of geographers, explorers and activists humanitarian organizations at a Geographical Conference, held in Brussels, to emphasize that I only wanted to help these nations, as a consequence and in my opinion it is very curious that this "gift" that the international community made to Belgium has not been taken into account for the consideration of the Congo to carry out this transfer but was led by the powers of the time such as Britain, France, Germany and the United States as a result of this gift Belgium was committed to "abolish slavery and Christianize the savages" issue that was not precisely what he did.

Leopold II, seeing that his plan was already complete, the tragedy began, Leopold II saw in the Congo large reserves of rubber for the manufacture of rubber, but this required a lot of manpower due to its nature of the collection, however that part was already solved given that it designed a system of concessions that, in essence, condemned slavery to all Congolese.

In order to do this, he contracted several explorers, among them Henry Morton Stanley, between 1884 and 1885, for the indigenous chiefs of the Congo to sign unwittingly contracts, thereby transferring the ownership of their lands to the International Association of Congo, the same institution that is supposed to He would protect them from expelling the slavers and modernize the country, not satisfied with this. Leopold II suggested that they make teams of children to help in the work. Basically this was a bondage of 24 hours a day and saddened or provided punishment if they did not deliver the minimum required and if they did not obey an order no matter how minimal the punishment was amputation.

Human rights violations could well occupy thousands of books, the sadistic Leopodo II did not have to make any shots to take over the Congo, he did not face resistance when he applied this slave system, since the Congo stretched out on a vast terrain so that each tribe lived in isolation, a historian named Adam Hochschild calculated an average of 10 million people killed at that time, Leopold II also did not face criticism of the international community even today is considered a friendly statesman.

It took years for the international community to realize this disaster caused by the Belgians, there were some reports of these atrocities but only the efforts of certain politicians such as the British vice-consul in the Congo, Roger Casement, who brought to light all this The genocide that Leopold II had provoked even warned US President Theodore Roosevelt to do something.

All these crimes were published to the public by a novel called Heart of darkness by Conan Doyle, creator of the character of Sherlock Holmes.

But before dying Leopold II bequeathed to Belgium the property of the Congo and established a colony however it did not last long as the Congo later became independent and Belgium had to pay a millionaire compensation but obviously does not remove the wound that left in its path