by Staff writer
At the halt of the 19th century, the Europeans scrambled for command of Africa.
But of all the awful crimes they committed, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the largest in addition to close horrid legacy of all.
While the Great Powers competed for territory elsewhere, the Rex of ane of Europe's smallest countries carved his ain someone colony out of 100km² of Central African rainforest.
He claimed he was doing it to protect the "natives" from Arab slavers, in addition to to opened upwards the pump of Africa to Christian missionaries, in addition to Western capitalists.
But instead King Leopold II unleashed novel horrors on the African continent.
He turned his "Congo Free State" into a massive labour camp, made a fortune for himself from the harvest of its wild rubber, in addition to contributed inward a large way to the decease of mayhap 10 meg innocent people.
Men who failed to select plenty safe for agents were killed, or their hands amputated.
Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State became ane of the greatest international scandals of the early on 20th century.
This is the words a alphabetic quality from King Leopold II of Kingdom of Belgium to colonial missionaries inward 1883:
“Reverends, Fathers in addition to Dear Compatriots:
The trouble that is given to fulfill is real fragile in addition to requires much tact. You volition travel sure enough to evangelize, exactly your evangelization must inspire higher upwards all Kingdom of Belgium interests. Your master copy objective inward our mission inward the Congo is never to learn the niggers to know God, this they know already.
They beak in addition to submit to a Mungu, ane Nzambi, ane Nzakomba, in addition to what else I don't know. They know that to kill, to slumber amongst someone else's wife, to prevarication in addition to to insult is bad.
Have courage to acknowledge it; you lot are non going to learn them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the trouble of administrators in addition to industrials, which agency you lot volition travel to translate the gospel inward the way it volition last the best to protect your interests inward that role of the world. For these things, you lot select to continue sentinel on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty inward their underground.
To avoid that, they acquire interested inward it, in addition to brand you lot murderous contest in addition to dream ane 24-hour interval to overthrow you. Your knowledge of the gospel volition allow you lot to let on texts ordering, in addition to encouraging your followers to love poverty, similar “Happier are the pathetic because they volition inherit the heaven” and, “It's real hard for the rich to travel into the kingdom of God.”
You select to detach from them in addition to brand them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I brand reference to their Mystic System in addition to their state of war fetish – warfare protection – which they pretend non to desire to abandon, in addition to you lot must practise everything inward your ability to brand it disappear.
Your activity volition last directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won't revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent's teachings.
The children select to larn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the begetter of their soul. You must singularly insist on their full submission in addition to obedience, avoid developing the spirit inward the schools, learn students to read in addition to non to reason.
There, dearest patriots, are around of the principles that you lot must apply. You volition let on many other books, which volition last given to you lot at the halt of this conference. Evangelize the niggers in addition to thence that they remain forever inward submission to the white colonialists, in addition to thence they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing.
Recite every 24-hour interval – “Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.”
Convert e'er the blacks past times using the whip. Keep their women inward ix months of submission to run freely for us.
Force them to pay you lot inward sign of recognition - goats, chicken or eggs - every fourth dimension you lot view their villages.
And brand sure that niggers never travel rich. Sing every 24-hour interval that it's impossible for the rich to travel into heaven. Make them pay taxation each calendar week at Lord's Day mass. Use the coin supposed for the poor, to construct flourishing draw of piece of job concern centres.
Institute a confessional system, which allows you lot to last skillful detectives denouncing whatsoever dark that has a dissimilar consciousness opposite to that of the decision-maker.
Teach the niggers to forget their heroes in addition to to adore exclusively ours. Never introduce a chair to a dark that comes to view you. Don't give him to a greater extent than than ane cigarette. Never invite him for dinner fifty-fifty if he gives you lot a chicken every fourth dimension you lot acquire inward at his house."
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The higher upwards speech communication which shows the existent intention of the Christian missionary journeying inward Africa was exposed to the footing past times Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born inward the Congo inward 1915.
In 1935, acre working inward the Congo, Muikwani Bukoko bought a second-hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech communication inward the Bible. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
At the halt of the 19th century, the Europeans scrambled for command of Africa.
But of all the awful crimes they committed, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the largest in addition to close horrid legacy of all.
While the Great Powers competed for territory elsewhere, the Rex of ane of Europe's smallest countries carved his ain someone colony out of 100km² of Central African rainforest.
He claimed he was doing it to protect the "natives" from Arab slavers, in addition to to opened upwards the pump of Africa to Christian missionaries, in addition to Western capitalists.
But instead King Leopold II unleashed novel horrors on the African continent.
He turned his "Congo Free State" into a massive labour camp, made a fortune for himself from the harvest of its wild rubber, in addition to contributed inward a large way to the decease of mayhap 10 meg innocent people.
Men who failed to select plenty safe for agents were killed, or their hands amputated.
Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State became ane of the greatest international scandals of the early on 20th century.
This is the words a alphabetic quality from King Leopold II of Kingdom of Belgium to colonial missionaries inward 1883:
“Reverends, Fathers in addition to Dear Compatriots:
The trouble that is given to fulfill is real fragile in addition to requires much tact. You volition travel sure enough to evangelize, exactly your evangelization must inspire higher upwards all Kingdom of Belgium interests. Your master copy objective inward our mission inward the Congo is never to learn the niggers to know God, this they know already.
They beak in addition to submit to a Mungu, ane Nzambi, ane Nzakomba, in addition to what else I don't know. They know that to kill, to slumber amongst someone else's wife, to prevarication in addition to to insult is bad.
Have courage to acknowledge it; you lot are non going to learn them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the trouble of administrators in addition to industrials, which agency you lot volition travel to translate the gospel inward the way it volition last the best to protect your interests inward that role of the world. For these things, you lot select to continue sentinel on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty inward their underground.
To avoid that, they acquire interested inward it, in addition to brand you lot murderous contest in addition to dream ane 24-hour interval to overthrow you. Your knowledge of the gospel volition allow you lot to let on texts ordering, in addition to encouraging your followers to love poverty, similar “Happier are the pathetic because they volition inherit the heaven” and, “It's real hard for the rich to travel into the kingdom of God.”
You select to detach from them in addition to brand them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I brand reference to their Mystic System in addition to their state of war fetish – warfare protection – which they pretend non to desire to abandon, in addition to you lot must practise everything inward your ability to brand it disappear.
Your activity volition last directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won't revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent's teachings.
The children select to larn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the begetter of their soul. You must singularly insist on their full submission in addition to obedience, avoid developing the spirit inward the schools, learn students to read in addition to non to reason.
There, dearest patriots, are around of the principles that you lot must apply. You volition let on many other books, which volition last given to you lot at the halt of this conference. Evangelize the niggers in addition to thence that they remain forever inward submission to the white colonialists, in addition to thence they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing.
Recite every 24-hour interval – “Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.”
Convert e'er the blacks past times using the whip. Keep their women inward ix months of submission to run freely for us.
Force them to pay you lot inward sign of recognition - goats, chicken or eggs - every fourth dimension you lot view their villages.
And brand sure that niggers never travel rich. Sing every 24-hour interval that it's impossible for the rich to travel into heaven. Make them pay taxation each calendar week at Lord's Day mass. Use the coin supposed for the poor, to construct flourishing draw of piece of job concern centres.
Institute a confessional system, which allows you lot to last skillful detectives denouncing whatsoever dark that has a dissimilar consciousness opposite to that of the decision-maker.
Teach the niggers to forget their heroes in addition to to adore exclusively ours. Never introduce a chair to a dark that comes to view you. Don't give him to a greater extent than than ane cigarette. Never invite him for dinner fifty-fifty if he gives you lot a chicken every fourth dimension you lot acquire inward at his house."
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| A subdivision of King Leopold's letter |
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The higher upwards speech communication which shows the existent intention of the Christian missionary journeying inward Africa was exposed to the footing past times Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born inward the Congo inward 1915.
In 1935, acre working inward the Congo, Muikwani Bukoko bought a second-hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech communication inward the Bible. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/