King Leopold II’s Congo Free State: The Forgotten Genocide That Shocked the World

King Leopold II of Belgium and the Congo Free State, depicting the brutal colonial rule, forced labor, and humanitarian atrocities between 1885 and 1908.

Between 1885 and 1908, one man privately owned a territory the size of Western Europe in the heart of Africa and used it as a personal extraction machine powered by terror. He never visited it. He called it a humanitarian mission. He won international praise for it. And in his name, somewhere between 10 and … Read more