A Congolese man named Nasala looks at his palm and presents his five-year-old daughter with a punishment for not collecting the required amount of rubber for the Belgian colonel. The soldiers killed the daughter and wife of the man and gave him the remains of his daughter. 1904 in the Belgian Congo.
It was a "private property" of Belgium's brutal king Leopold II in accordance with the resolutions of the Berlin Conference of 1885, and everyone who lived on it was a private property of the king who killed more than 10 million Congolese in the boom years of trade Rubber between 1808 and 1908, until Leopold II was named the "Hitler of Africa".
The King's forces not only exterminated millions of Congolese, especially the villages that rebelled against the brutality of the Belgians, but the Pelicans cut off the millions, including the daughter of this man and his wife. Why? The commanders were afraid that the soldiers would use bullets to catch animals or birds. The soldier had to offer the paws for the number of bullets he had fired to prove that he used them in the killing. ! Were the "baskets of broken hands" and would follow one of the familiar scenes in the Congo. The "paws" also turned into a popular trade. There were those who cut them off specially to sell them to soldiers who were unable to collect enough to give them to their leaders. In this case, the hand was not always attached to the killing.
All of that brutality was that the ABIR Congo Company could sell rubber in Europe at prices greater than 9 times the cost and make huge profits.
In 1960, the Belgian Congo was finally liberated by African fighter Patrice Lumumba, who was elected as the first head of a democratic government. But in January 1961 he was assassinated by the Belgian coup d'état Mobutu Cissico, who changed the country to Zaire for more than 30 years.
Before his death, Lumumba said: Behind every black man there is a white man armed. UN troops stood by and watched what was happening against Lumumba. Only the Egyptian regiment intervened with instructions from Nasser and managed to smuggle the Lumumba family to Cairo. The bodies of Lumumba and his four companions were dissolved in a sulfuric acid under the supervision of a Belgian officer, Gerard Sweet. In a television interview in 1999 and said he had kept two Lumumba teeth for years and then delivered them in the North Sea.
In 1998, dictator Cissico fell under a rebel attack led by the old Rafik Lumumba Laurent Kabila, who lived all these years outside the cities. Kabila returned the country to the DRC but was assassinated after three years of power. His son Joseph Kabila has been president of the Congo since 2001 until now. .
