“Hopefully they won't mess up my Congo!”

— Leopold II of Belgium

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Source: Mémoires du Congo - Shame or Pride https://www.memoiresducongo.be/nl/schaamte-of-fierheid/

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King of the Belgians 1835–1909

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“I will give them my Congo, but they have no right to know what i did there.”

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