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Democrats win control of Senate as US voters reject Trump’s agenda
(www.theguardian.com)
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Pssst, Congo was private property of King Leopold ,not Belgium
Hey, you can't scapegoat leopold and forget that Belgium held on to and continued to exploit congo till the 60s. That's less than a hundred years ago, your grandad was probably alive then.
Oh and Belgium got their first democratically elected leader lubumba assassinated. And you still regularly interfere in their politics.
Also in Belgium. You know that the Belgian army was in the Congo during that period? That means government support. The state literally gave him the money for his "purchase" and also paid propagandists to promote it. They also took it over in 1908 officially and continued to exploit them, enforcing an alpartheid, and kidnapped thousands of children. Our grandparents were literally the ones doing the kidnapping.
You know that belgian citizens cut off the hands of children and workers, mass raped women and children, and mass executed people in the Congo? We can't hide and "b-b-but Leopold acted alone, it wasn't Belgium" our way out of recent ancestors committing genocide. King Leopold never even went to the Congo.
This is exactly the same as saying "america didn't elsave millions of african people, private people and companies did". It still happened. The american government also aren't the ones physically killing children in Gaza.