Iniciado por j.eugenio

La guerra en el Congo, ya crónica, no es noticia, porque como bien dice Expósito, "se desarrolla en Africa", pero la crueldad de lo que alli está ocurriendo debería avergonzar a la humanidad en su conjunto.

Iniciado por javi1984

que se avergüencen ellos que son los que cometen los crímenes, los demás lo que podrán hacer es escandalizarse, pero nada más.


Ya cansa tanto victimismo estúpido encaminado a pedir ayudas y pasta gansa! Si allí deciden matarse, comerse, violarse y torturarse entre ellos para luego al final, andar muriéndose de hambre y clamar por las injusticias que padecen en el mundo, en Europa no tenemos por qué sentirnos culpables.

Lo máximo a lo que pueden aspirar de mi parte es a que respete sus costumbres, siempre que las practiquen entre ellos claro está...

The first economic focus of the colony was ivory, but this did not yield the expected levels of revenue. When the global demand for rubber exploded, attention shifted to the labor-intensive collection of sap from rubber plants. Abandoning the promises of the Berlin Conference in the late 1890s, the Free State government restricted foreign access and extorted forced labor from the natives. The abuses suffered were horrific, especially in the rubber industry, and included the effective enslavement of the native population, savage beatings, widespread killing, and frequent mutilation when the unrealistic quotas were not met. Missionary John Harris of Baringa, for example, was so shocked by what he had come across that he wrote to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo saying: "I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo. The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. I was so moved, Your Excellency, by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit."


Children's hands were hacked off if they did not deliver the amount of rubber demanded by King Leopold II.The hands were then smoked and transported to Belgian contractors, who counted the number of severed limbs. The quantity of severed hands amounted to as much as a metric ton per day[4]
Estimates of the death toll range from two million to fifteen million.[5][6][7] Determining precisely how many people died is next to impossible as accurate records were not kept. Louis and Stengers state that population figures at the start of Leopold's control are only "wild guesses", while E.D. Morel's attempt and others at coming to a figure for population losses were "but figments of the imagination".[8]
Adam Hochschild devotes a chapter of his book, King Leopold's Ghost, to the problem of estimating the death toll. He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, examining local sources from police records, religious records, oral traditions, genealogies, personal diaries, and "many others", which generally agree with the assessment of the 1919 Belgian government commission: roughly half the population perished during the Free State period. Since the first official census by the Belgian authorities in 1924 put the population at about 10 million, that implies a rough estimate of 10 million dead.[9]
Smallpox and sleeping sickness also devastated the disrupted population.[10] By 1896 the sleeping sickness had killed up to 5,000 Africans in the village of Lukolela on the Congo River. The mortality figures were collected through the efforts of Roger Casement, who found, for example, only 600 survivors of the disease in Lukolela in 1903.[11]
Reports of outrageous exploitation and widespread human rights abuses led to international outcry in the early 1900s. The campaign to examine Leopold's regime, led by British diplomat Roger Casement and former shipping clerk E. D. Morel under the auspices of the Congo Reform Association, became the first mass human rights movement.[12] Supporters included American writer Mark Twain, who wrote a stinging political satire entitled King Leopold's Soliloquy, in which the King supposedly argues that bringing Christianity to the country outweighs a little starvation. Rubber gatherers were tortured, maimed and slaughtered until the turn of the century, when the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.[13] Arthur Conan Doyle also blasted the 'rubber regime' in his 1908 work 'The Crime of the Congo', written to aid the work of the Congo Reform Association. Doyle contrasted Leopold's rule to the British rule of Nigeria, arguing decency required that those who ruled primitive peoples to be concerned first with their uplift, not how much could be extracted from them. Doyle's work is the most complete contemporary account of the Congo scandal. It should be noted that, as Hochschild describes in King Leopold's Ghost, many of Leopold's policies were adopted from Dutch practices in the East Indies, and similar methods were employed to some degree by Germany, France, and Portugal where natural rubber occurred in their colonies.


Leopold II with the coat of arms of the Belgian Congo in Ghent, Belgium
Finally, in 1908, the Belgian parliament compelled the King to cede the Congo Free State to Belgium.
Leopold II is still a controversial figure in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His statue in the capital, Kinshasa, was removed after independence. Congolese culture minister Christoph Muzungu decided to reinstate the statue in 2005, pointing out the sense of liberating progress that had marked the beginning of the Free State and arguing that people should see the positive aspects of the king as well as the negative; but just hours after the six-metre (20 ft) statue was erected in the middle of a roundabout near Kinshasa's central station, it was taken down again without explanation. The Congo continues, however, to use a variation of the Free State flag, which it adopted after dropping the name and flag of Zaire.

Iniciado por javi1984

que se avergüencen ellos que son los que cometen los crímenes, los demás lo que podrán hacer es escandalizarse, pero nada más.


Ya cansa tanto victimismo estúpido encaminado a pedir ayudas y pasta gansa! Si allí deciden matarse, comerse, violarse y torturarse entre ellos para luego al final, andar muriéndose de hambre y clamar por las injusticias que padecen en el mundo, en Europa no tenemos por qué sentirnos culpables.

Lo máximo a lo que pueden aspirar de mi parte es a que respete sus costumbres, siempre que las practiquen entre ellos claro está...

Son masacres y matanzas entre Untermenschen que no nos interesan.