King Leopold's Ghost
A sordid history of Belgium's African conquest makes a turn.
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I have heard about Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Idi Amin, Gaddafi, Saddam but not about king Leopold. Read his history, he was running a country with mercenaries.
Another political or royal criminal needs to be checked and reformed.
Michael Beloved , Does apology of his successors help in healing the crime?
Or the apology has to be taken as the first step forward and try to heal and move on?
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There is national karma, family karma and personal karma. These are settled mathematically by nature in the process of time, where it accurately sorts the accounting like an expert financier.
The present king’s act has to do with absolving national karma. A small percentage of it must be his personal karma as well. Thus, by intuition, while he is public with the national karma, he will satisfy any opportunity to settle his personal liabilities which fate serves to him.
Years ago, in Belgium Congo there was slavery and during that time, the king never visited Africa but he gave orders and there was wholesale butchery of tribal people there. Most of us know about Spanish, Portuguese and British slavery, but we know little about the worse situation which occurred in Congo.
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Brutal Things That Were "Normal" For History's Deadliest King
Yes, there was no end to the atrocities. The thing is that history was not recorded as such, but there was always a "whitewashing" of what took place.We can see that regarding White Nationalists/ Republicans in the US today as it pertains to CRT, critical race theory. Worse yet, the good old method of dividing and conquering took affect in the form of painting African kings as the evil doers instead, the White man controls the narrative.
Just as it regards African Americans and other Disporian Africans, in particular Haiti, apologies is a good start as far as feelings are concerned. But that also puts the African victims in a position of asking for reparation, which is the practical resolution. Court systems' objective in establishing justice is to make the pursuing party whole again, as a payment of wrongful deeds.
But just because things were relatively harsher in the Congo as a Belgium colony (as far as resurfacing information) is no indication that colonization by other European nations was any better. These were consistent and systematic behavior and tactics of uncomparable cruelty in human history, across the board, that continent was ravished in the worst imaginable ways.
Ultimately, a Black individual was not considered a person, and somehow that justified imposing extreme evil behavior on them through namely colonization and slavery.
One aspect that is an important (subtle) consequence, yet inconspicous is the legacy of such behaviors and perpetrations. We can easily observe that when certain behaviors are propagated on a mass scale on a group, those behaviors will affect those living group species and their future generations.
We can see how the behaviors of Mayans and such empires still may be influencing generational births in the form of gang atrocities in Mexico and other places. But many times the impositions that disturb other ethno-cultural systems are still there influencing history, as the atrocious civil war in the Congo (to this date), the genocide in Rwanda, the xenophobia in South Africa ...
