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Historical content From #Belgium, #Congo, the #BelgianCongo, #CongoFreeState, #RuandaUrundi and King Leopold II of Belgium! 🇧🇪🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮

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Des branches du même arbre ont la même racine! #CongoBelgique

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Skala fréquenta ensuite l’école Ledeganck à Gand et accompagna Van de Velde lors de conférences sur le Congo. En octobre 1887, ils retournèrent ensemble au Congo. Van de Velde devait devenir capitaine à Stanley Falls, mais il mourut quelques semaines après son arrivée.

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

En 1884, le pionnier belge Lieven Van de Velde, qui, à l’instar de Henry Morton Stanley, explora le #Congo pour le compte de Léopold II, emmena Skala, un fils du roi Pedro V du Kongo, en #Belgique. De ce fait, Skala fut probablement le premier Congolais à fouler le sol belge.

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

The myth of the severed hands!

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

@Imperalist58481 @BruceDGilley @gddub is the interviewer, and @DVanLangenhove the interviewee. https://t.co/ZogFSTIxvt

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@BruceDGilley

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Sanity has prevailed, madness is no more!

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[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

In the summer of 1977, Crown Prince @PahlaviReza of #Iran, soon to become King, embarked on a royal tour of Belgium alongside Prince Philippe of Belgium (later King Philippe), strengthening diplomatic and cultural ties between the Iranian and #Belgian nations.

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

On May 12, 1960, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of #Iran, made a formal state visit to #Belgium, where he was welcomed by King Baudouin and the Royal Guard.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Back when the Congo was still ruled by the Belgians (who did not do the horrific things of which they are accused, as @BruceDGilley firmly establishes in The Case for Colonialism), it was a jewel of colonial Africa.

The Belgian Congo was a safe and pleasant vacation destination for Europeans

Now it is ruled by warlords, has been in the throes of tractless civil war more or less since Mike Hoare was forced out in the name of anti-racism, and visiting it will get you beheaded

Such are the just desserts of egalitarianism

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

#Grokpedia rocks! Finally, a nuanced encyclopaedic perspective on the atrocities in the Congo under the rule of Leopold II. Thanks to Prof. Bruce Gilley and his groundbreaking work on Colonialism!

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Good news from Youtube.

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Possessing a remarkable talent for diplomacy, Leopold successfully managed to persuade the world to recognize his Congo State, deftly playing the great powers against each other while simultaneously emphasizing the humanitarian and civilizing aspects of his mission.

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Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher born in 1872, lived through the late 19th century and witnessed firsthand the escalating rivalry between the great powers of Europe.

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It was against this backdrop of international competition, coupled with the prevailing missionary zeal to "bring civilization throughout the world," that King Leopold II of Belgium executed his great projects.

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

WOW!

[RFI @RFI]

🇨🇩 Président de la #RDC de 2001 à 2019, Joseph #Kabila a été condamné en son absence à la peine de mort, notamment pour crimes de guerre, par la Haute Cour militaire de #Kinshasa.

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[Dutch Empire 🇳🇱 @RealDutchEmpire]

Wie het heersende Woke beeld over kolonialisme uitdaagt, krijgt te maken met sociale uitsluiting. @wierdduk en @Focusscience1 over "The Case for Colonialism" van Professor @BruceDGilley.

[LE CASTOR DU CONGO @MeCongolese]

Avancer dans le respect et l'amitié avec ceux qui nous ont apporté la civilisation. 🇨🇩🤝🏾🇧🇪

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

The challenge is to define interventions that are legitimate, multilateral, and aimed not at civilizing, but at protecting, so that organic growth can resume.

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The philosophical opposition between Thomas Hobbes and thinkers like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lies at the heart of today's debate between colonialism and anti-colonialism.

[Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @BasedCongo]

This would mean recognizing the "nobility" of distinct cultural identities, respecting their right to self-determination, but also accepting a duty to interfere in extreme situations, specifically when a society is no longer "noble" but trapped in a Hobbesian state of war.