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A reduction of the population of the Congo is noted by several researchers who have compared the country at the beginning of Leopold's control with the beginning of Belgian state rule in 1908, but estimates of the death toll vary considerably, mainly due to the absence of reliable demographic sources about the region, as well as the ...
8 de jun. de 2022 · The Congolese genocide is one of the biggest mass murders in modern history, counting eight to ten million murder victims and millions of others severely injured. Jun 8, 2022 • By Marietta Korfiati, BA History & Archaeology, MA in-progress.
12 de jun. de 2020 · A renewed global focus on racism is highlighting a violent colonial history that generated riches for Belgians but death and misery for Congolese.
Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem, a Congolese scholar whose Histoire générale du Congo was published the same year as King Leopold's Ghost, estimated the death toll in the Free State era and its aftermath at roughly 13 million (which Ndaywel è Nziem has subsequently revised downward to 10 million, the same number as Hochschild's conclusion).
- Adam Hochschild
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30 de jun. de 2020 · Estimates of the death toll caused by colonisation range from one to ten million. However, Leopold II is still commemorated with statues and monuments across Brussels. A large statue of him, outside the royal palace, has been vandalised repeatedly, most recently during a Black Lives Matter protest.
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23 de jun. de 2023 · Summary. Ever since Adam Hochschild wrote in 1998 that the killings and excess deaths in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State (1885-1908), though of genocidal proportions, did not, “strictly speaking,” constitute genocide, the debate his words sparked has not abated.
In 1908, the reports of deaths and abuse, along with pressure from the Congo Reform Association and other international groups, induced the Belgian Government to take over the administration of the Congo from Leopold during the penultimate year of his rule.
