The Royal Family of Belgium: King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, and their children.
“It takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they have done,” sings the late Lucky Dube, South Africa’s reggae legend. This is the exact situation of the Royal Family of Belgium, because one of the ancestors, King Leopold II, was a greedy mad ruler and a murderer.
Some women have given birth to monsters to rule this world. Apart from Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, etc, another evil man whose crimes against humanity shocked the world is King Leopold II.
Born on 17 December 1865 in Brussels, the horrible crimes Leopold committed were swept under the carpet, but the hump in the carpet has exposed his heinous crimes to be seen by the whole world.
Born on 17 December 1865 in Brussels, the horrible crimes Leopold committed were swept under the carpet, but the hump in the carpet has exposed his heinous crimes to be seen by the whole world.
In the 1880s, when Europe was scrambling over the continent of Africa like ants stumbling upon sugar, Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium.
The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held vast natural mineral resources, including in rubber, a commodity in high demand in late 19th century industrial Europe.
The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held vast natural mineral resources, including in rubber, a commodity in high demand in late 19th century industrial Europe.
King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800s. On his throne in Brussels, Leopold gave orders to his commanding officer to: Cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members, and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross.”
Leopold’s reign of terror wasn’t only the cutting off the
heads and hands of the innocent helpless Congolese but flogging them to death,
starving them into forced labour, holding children ransom and burning villages,
as a punishment for those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the
Belgian officers.
The disturbing part of this story is after the death
of Leopold II, his successors (The Belgian Royal Family) never took his crimes
into account. Instead, he was hailed as a hero, naming of streets after him and
building his statue.
That’s where the Royal Family went wrong because
the dead can’t be mocked. There are many restless souls haunting people in
their homes. There are houses people can’t stay inside, all because of the
horrible circumstances those people were murdered.
The lunatic King Leopold II's statue
Adolf Hitler killed over six million Jews, In Germany, streets named after him have been changed but not Belgium. The government has named many streets after the lunatic Leopold II and many of his statues are all over Belgium.
A country that doesn't support crime wouldn't do what the government did, the reason I say it clear and loud that the Royal Family of Belgium supports crime.