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<p>[QUOTE="midas1, post: 4593710, member: 21309"]". . . Hochschild cites the research of several historians, many of them Belgian. He refers especially to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Marchal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Marchal" rel="nofollow">Jules Marchal</a>, formerly a Belgian colonial civil servant and diplomat who (as Hochschild describes) spent twenty years trying to break Belgian silence about the massacres. The documentation was not easy to come by; the furnaces of the palace in Brussels are said to have spent more than a week burning incriminating papers before Leopold turned over his private Congo to the Belgian nation. For many years Belgian authorities prevented access to what remained of the archives, notably the accounts given by Congolese to the King's Commission. . . "</p><p><br /></p><p>My interest in Leopold as the despot of Congo is to keep history honest. Another example is Gaddafi. Many like to reframe his dictatorial rule as the Savior of Libya they neglect to report his comet went from born to nomadic Bedouin parents, a revolutionary hero to an authoritarian thug, major thief, terrorist, rapist, pedophile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="midas1, post: 4593710, member: 21309"]". . . Hochschild cites the research of several historians, many of them Belgian. He refers especially to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Marchal']Jules Marchal[/URL], formerly a Belgian colonial civil servant and diplomat who (as Hochschild describes) spent twenty years trying to break Belgian silence about the massacres. The documentation was not easy to come by; the furnaces of the palace in Brussels are said to have spent more than a week burning incriminating papers before Leopold turned over his private Congo to the Belgian nation. For many years Belgian authorities prevented access to what remained of the archives, notably the accounts given by Congolese to the King's Commission. . . " My interest in Leopold as the despot of Congo is to keep history honest. Another example is Gaddafi. Many like to reframe his dictatorial rule as the Savior of Libya they neglect to report his comet went from born to nomadic Bedouin parents, a revolutionary hero to an authoritarian thug, major thief, terrorist, rapist, pedophile.[/QUOTE]
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