“De meeste Congolezen (in Congo, niet in Brussel) houden koppig vol dat zij het beter hadden tijdens de kolonisatie en dat de onafhankelijkheid beter in 1985 was gekomen, zoals Van Bilsen destijds voorstelde.”
Source: Koloniaal Congo - Een geschiedenis in vragen
“Moest Lumumba destijds niet geweigerd hebben om de Congolese nationaliteit toe te kennen aan de kolonialen die dat wensten. Dan zou het economisch debacle van de zaïrisering vermeden zijn.”
Source: Koloniaal Congo - Een geschiedenis in vragen
“De Congolezen werden pas echt opgehitst tegen de Belgen door de boeken van ‘witten’ zoals Vangroenweghe, Marchal, Hochschild en De Witte.”
Source: Koloniaal Congo - Een geschiedenis in vragen
“Beauty is a sacrifice. -Me
Baby, I INVENTED scrawny! -Leo Valdez
I will NEVER leave you or forsake you. -God
No one can make you feel inferior, unless you consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Be careful, Seaweed Brain. -Annabeth Chase”
“The current problems in Congo (poverty, 27 million people in famine, enrichment by the top, brutal rapes, murders, ...) receive much less attention than those during the time of Leopold II.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“The Chinese who mine cobalt mines in the Congo are now whipping Congolese workers with impunity. A video of this went viral, but no action group or government reacted to it.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“The rubber production only took place in the northwest of the Congo, in the Equateur province, a very small part of the huge country.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“Human zoos existed in many countries (France, Norway, USA), but only Leopold II was accused of bringing Congolese to Belgium in 1885, 1894 and 1897.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“Lumumba praised Leopold as a genius and builder of the Congo; in his fierce speech of June 30, 1960, he denounced 9 forms of violence, but the "severed hands" and the "chicotte" (whip) were not among them. The chicotte was part of the sharia and the Arab slave traders, but it was banned in the law that was introduced by Leopold after 1885 for Congolese citizens.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“It was only in 1926, long after Leopold II, that the whip was introduced in local courts with Congolese chieftains and dignitaries as judges. In 1959 the use had completely disappeared, but Laurent Kabila reintroduced it in 1997 and now the whip is a common torture of the police.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba