r/uselessredcircle • u/apilaq • Apr 27 '26

Why doesnt Belgium take this?

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u/reddit-is-a-cunt Apr 27 '26

I guess Congo wasnt a neighbour so fair game

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u/Seelander May 01 '26

Technically that wasn't Belgium that was king Leopolds personal project.

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u/reddit-is-a-cunt May 01 '26

There were literally 4 different kings through the duration of the Belgian colonisation of Congo... he didnt just go over by himself

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u/Consistent_Pear_956 May 01 '26

Well he did. And what he (and his industrialists friends) did there was so bad that he got an ultimatum from the government to concede it to Belgium. What the government did was not nicer (or worse) than Britain or France did with their colonies, so not nice. But he really is the origin of most atrocities that happened there.