'When you put a statue of Hitler in Berlin... that is like putting up a statue of Leopold in Brussels.' Historians estimate at least half a million people died under King Leopold II's misrule, but its horrors have received little attention in Belgium
That could change soon. Armed only with history and an online petition, 14-year-old Noah is determined to bring Belgium's controversial"Builder King" crashing down.Noah's parents are from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the late 19th century, the country -- then personally owned by Leopold II -- was a place of extraordinary cruelty, where hundreds of thousands of Africans died in slavery.
The contentious Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren is trying to settle those competing interpretations of history by presenting the unvarnished truth, according to its director, Gryseels.The museum was originally built at Leopold's direction to glorify Belgium's role in Africa; it proudly displayed the spoils of colonialism and presented white people in a superior light to Africans. A bust of Leopold, carved from ivory, is still among its exhibits.
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