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"The Belgian Massacres. To the Workmen of Europe and the United States" is a minor political pamphlet written by Karl Marx in May 1869. In it, Marx responds to the violent repression of strikes which had occurred in Belgium the previous month.
First published: as a leaflet, The Belgian Massacres. To the Workmen of Europe and the United States, May 1869. Marx wrote this address to the workers of Europe and the United States following the bloody events in Belgium in April 1869.
Belgian crowds booed at his funeral in 1909 to express their dissatisfaction with his rule of the Congo. Attention to the atrocities subsided in the following years and statues of him were erected in the 1930s at the initiative of Albert I, while the Belgian government celebrated
The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deportation, by German troops against Belgian civilians during the invasion and occupation of Belgium during World War I . The neutrality of Belgium had been guaranteed by the Treaty of London of 1839, which had been signed by Prussia.
Synopsis. The confrontation in Charleroi, Belgium, is commonly called la grève [strike] de l'Épine. Starting in 1867, severe wage cuts resulted in numerous strikes in the coal fields of Charleroi and the Borinage. On 26 March 1868 a coalition of some 3,000 miners assembled and occupied L'Épine, the mine located in Montigny-sur-Sambre.
12 de jun. de 2020 · Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State. Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum...
27 de sept. de 2014 · Overall, the Germans were responsible for the deaths of over 20,000 Belgian civilians, with over 30,000 injured or rendered permanently invalid. Almost 20,000 children lost their parents and became orphans.
