King Leopold II, The Caucasian Idi Amin Of Belgium

The monsters, left, King Leopold II of Belgium and Idi Amin of Uganda

Very often, psychologists and psychiatrists have traced the cause of much of people’s behavior, character, and ailments to their homes. Therefore, it’s only through DNA analysis or a psychologist that can give us the precise account of the mental state of the lunatic King Leopold II of Belgium.

 

But for someone from a royal family to have children with a prostitute tells you much about the distorted mental state of King Leopold II.

 

Among humans, there are many born monsters that took the form of humans to live among us with the aim to destroy other people without remorse and sympathy. 

Many of such people, such as Idi Amin of Uganda, Pol Pot of Cambodia, Mao Zedong of China, Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler, etc, were born into the world.

 

One of such monstrous kings who rule Belgium from 1865 to 1909, was King Leopold II, who had a dark heart similar to the one we had in an African country called Uganda. 

Referred to as the ‘Butcher of Uganda,’ Idi Amin violated the rights of Ugandans and ordered the killings of thousands of people under a reign of terror, making him one of the cruelest presidents in Africa, after emperor Bokassa.

 

Unable to take part in the division of the world by the great powers, King Leopold II managed to organize several expeditions to Central Africa and gradually captured a fair amount of territory in the basin of the Congo River, after bribing the leaders of local tribes. 

 

With the consent of other powers that were in no hurry to delve into the sparsely populated jungle, the Free State of the Congo was created and Congo became his personal property. 

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Congo is one of the richest countries in Africa, with rich resources including rubber plantations, turned King Leopold a monster, as rubber was in great demand for the automobile industry.

 

Shocked little boy standing by his mother whose right hand had been chopped off

King Leopold created the police, both white and black mercenaries under the command of European officers and severely punished the Congolese for the slightest offense and simply for insufficient productivity in collecting rubber. 

 

Congo became famous not only for its rich natural resources, including cobalt, needed for electrical gadgets, including mobile telephones today but a country where all kinds of atrocities and crimes were taking place.

 

People’s hands and feet were chopped and the perpetrators often burned down the entire village. King Leopold’s greed propelled him to commit horrible crimes in Africa with impunity as if the Congolese were animals in the slaughterhouse.

 

In fact, it’s difficult to give account of how many lives perished at the hands of Leopold II but some books claim it was close to ten million people, including women and children.

 

Unlike Idi Amin in Uganda killing his own people, King Leopold II himself wasn’t in Congo. He was in Belgium while he gives the command for the killings and as we know now that Belgium is a country that supported his crime by building statues and naming streets after the lunatic king.

 

Some of the victims of the madness of King Leopold II were children

During Leopold’s reign of terror, he named Congo’s capital Leopoldville in his honor. Leopoldville is now changed to Kinshasa.  In 1908, under pressure from his own parliament and foreign states, the old king sold the Free State of the Congo to the Belgian government and died a year later.

 

Much of the wealth brought to the king by the colonial enterprise went to the former French prostitute Caroline Lacroix, who was 49 years younger than Leopold. Caroline gave him two sons, and a couple of days before the death of Leopold, she persuaded the monarch to marry her. 

 

Strange things happen sometimes, it seems those Leopold had their hands chopped off spirits were seeking revenge. It was reported that Carolina's youngest child was born with an undeveloped hand. 

 

Upon hearing of this, a British satirical magazine published a terrible cartoon: Leopold II holds a mutilated baby in his arms, and around the corpses of Congolese with severed limbs. The signature reads: "Retribution from above."

 

The statue of Leopold on a horse. Belgium government and the royal family honor to a killer for a job well done

Indeed, King Leopold was one of the evilest kings ever to be on earth with so many questions unanswered. What makes people so cruel? And why do such people’s families often support the crimes of their relatives? Is it because of the same DNA or blood? 

It’s a shame to the entire Belgian government and the royal family.