DOES THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BELGIUM SUPPORT CRIME?

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, as one of its ancestors, King Leopold II, was a greedy, ruthless 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.

In the 1880s, when Europe was scrambling over the continent of Africa like ants stumbling upon a sugar source, 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 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 of 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 that 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 named after him and a statue built in his honor. 

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 where 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 in 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 clearly and loudly is that the Royal Family of Belgium supports crime.

A MAN CAN'T BE PRAISED FOR HIS EVIL DEEDS, UNLESS YOU'RE EVIL

The quote of Martin Luther King Jr

We often hear “I don’t like Obama, I hate CNN, I don’t like George W. Bush, etc. If you try to find out the reason for their hatred and dislike, they will tell you why.

It is easier to hate than to show or give love to a person. Thus, probably if someone hates me, there must be a reason for that. But when I haven’t committed any crime, I would like to find out why someone hates me. Is it because of my probing articles?

I am an African writer living in Europe, reading every humiliating and degrading article European and American journalists write about Africa. Do you expect me to join them when they have many problems to deal with on their shores, but pretend everything is fine?

In Brussels, come daily European and other world leaders to talk about problems affecting the world, with the aim of finding solutions to tackle those problems. In the same Brussels stands a statue of Leopold II, the king who killed and maimed over ten million Africans, including women and children.

Belgium didn’t consider the crime of this criminal. Instead, they built a statue to glorify and named streets after him throughout the country, when there is no statue of Adolf Hitler, for killing 6 million Jews. Would you hate me as an African writer who values life if I write that the Belgian government should pull down that statue?

The world leaders and journalists converging at Brussels don’t care about any statue, because they are not Africans; moreover, the life of an African to them is valueless. But since the Bible I read tells me that ‘God created man in His own image,’ I will write an article against this injustice and ignorance.

No one in their right mind would praise someone who has committed such a heinous crime unless the person is sick himself or evil. Sometimes, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” said Martin Luther King Jr. Yes, the sufferer has to scream for the oppressor to know what the oppressed are going through.

Terrorism

The selfishness, greed, hypocrisy, and bad policies of European and American leaders have generated scores of hatred for the common citizens. Whatever terrorism has taken place in Europe and America, in the past and today, was caused by Europe and America.

In Brussels, they sit behind a heavy security gate and take measures to combat terrorism. After that, they give those measures to the media for publication, but the reasons that led to the killing of innocent citizens are never given to the media. Because they don’t want the public to know the truth, and again aren’t ready to change their bad policies.

Unfortunately, people don’t realize the harm these politicians are causing in society against ordinary citizens. Do we have to depend on such people/politicians for security or protection? They were there when 9/11 occurred. 

They were there when runners taking part in a marathon were murdered by unscrupulous terrorists. They were there when terrorists struck France, and they were there when Africa was intentionally plagued with Aids, Ebola, Lassa fever, and other diseases.

When they see victims of terrorism's bodies scattered, before you’ll see soldiers and the police with guns at every point of the street, disrupting public activities. These politicians have no protection for us today or tomorrow. In fact, they have left us sitting on a time bomb, without knowing when the next terrorist act will strike.

Honestly, the public can take good care of themselves more than what politicians can do, if each becomes his brother’s keeper, giving love, doing away with racism, discrimination, and living in peace and harmony. Love truly conquers everything.