Status Updates From King Leopold's Ghost

After Decolonization, Congo became a pawn in the Cold War with the disposal of populist leader Lumumba and the installation of a Kleptocracy under Mobutu. The power vacuum of whose fall led to violent civil war and a new resource to be exploited, not rubber but Coltan, with the same savagery that exploitation brings.

The human rights campaign had some success, but there was a great forgetting after WWI due to the fact that Belgium was a victim of German Aggression, and Allied Propaganda needed to forget the inconvenient fact of the Horrors of King Leopold's Congo.

Making Leopold's Horrors in the Congo a much-discussed topic in the early 1900s.

Edmund Morel and Roger Casement start a human rights movement, shedding light on King Leopold's horrors in the Congo.

When you don't view the native population as human, and you want to exploit their labor and their resources, things can get pretty savage pretty quickly.

fighting Congo rebels who had other Ideas than the plans of King Leopold.

The US role in helping Leopold get the Congo during the scramble for Africa.

The story of the famous meeting of Stanley and Livingstone was retold by Hollywood with Spencer Tracy in the 1940s.

For King Leopold, it was Rubber; for Elon Musk, it is rare earth minerals.

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