That is how we got to what the Europeans call "Belgian chocolate": note, the cocoa tree does not grow in Europe and tthere are no cocoa plantations in Belgium.
Yes, I would have referenced that if it had been the same calendar century, though they were within a century of each other. What Leopold and the Belgians did there was exceptionally brutal.
I’ll also add that over 100 million Indians were killed by the British from 1880-1920. Many of them from policy induced famine, like is being done in Palestine.
The colonial genociders love starving people to death.
They killed all the buffalo in North America to systematically starve the Native Americans.
There are estimates that around 150 million indigenous people of North America were murdered through the colonial tools of genocide.
The Belgians massacred an estimated 10+ million Congolese in colonising that place in the late 1800s:
https://www.namibian.com.na/skewed-documentation-of-genocides-the-holocaust-vs-belgian-atrocities-in-the-congo/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53017188
That is how we got to what the Europeans call "Belgian chocolate": note, the cocoa tree does not grow in Europe and tthere are no cocoa plantations in Belgium.
Yes, I would have referenced that if it had been the same calendar century, though they were within a century of each other. What Leopold and the Belgians did there was exceptionally brutal.
I’ll also add that over 100 million Indians were killed by the British from 1880-1920. Many of them from policy induced famine, like is being done in Palestine.
The colonial genociders love starving people to death.
They killed all the buffalo in North America to systematically starve the Native Americans.
There are estimates that around 150 million indigenous people of North America were murdered through the colonial tools of genocide.