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Reading "King Leopold's Ghost" by Hochschild is wild. Revelation after revelation.

Like, did you know that "the Independent State of Congo," as it was known once Leopold laid claim to it, was actually Leopold's personal possession? Not, initially, an actual colony of the country of Belgium but his private fiefdom. He referred to himself as its proprietor at times.

How?? First, he set up the "International African Association" (Association Internationale pour l'Exploration et la Civilisation de l'Afrique Centrale), tricking people into thinking this was a real independent non-profit organization. Then, under the pretense of humanitarianism, he hired Henry Morton Stanley to traverse the Congo River and trick local elites into signing treaties and contracts with the King of the Belgians. These false treaties were then put to use in convincing first the USA and then the European powers, during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, to recognize Leopold as the sovereign of "L'État indépendant du Congo" (the Independent State of Congo). Ironically, the conference also resulted in a pact among the Europeans to put an end to African and Arab slavery.

The death toll of Leopold's forced labor regime, geared towards his personal enrichment via the extraction first of ivory and then rubber, is estimated at around 10 million people. He used these riches, in part, to fund his obsession with architecture, leading to his moniker in his home country, the "Builder King."

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@SallyStrange @histodons As I found out that the person who had set up the colonies in the north of the Netherlands where poor people from the cities were forced to learn a "productive way of live," or they would starve (which they did) was also the same person who invented the 'cultuur stelsel,' where farmers on Java were forced to use 10% of their land for production of tobacco, indigo and so on, which caused them to starve too. Europe is built on mass murder and genocide.

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@bamfic @SallyStrange @histodons The main reason I can't teach history anymore. It enrages me how they sell it in the schoolbooks.

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Last year, after a WWII veteran died, his family members discovered 22 stolen Japanese antiques in his attic. These included a hand-drawn map, ceramics, and portraits of Okinawan kings, some dating back as far as the 1700s. On Friday, the FBI announced that the artifacts were on their way back to Japan. NPR has details of what happened, and images of the items.

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@Carsten_hb @Hunterrules0_o @CultureDesk @histodons The Geneva Conventions don't have a 'they did it too' or a 'they were worse' clauses.

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