Leopold II of Belgium (English Wikipedia)

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As documented in several autograph letters by the two unfortunate lovers ANSA newsbrief (in Italian)

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Hochschild, Adam (1998). King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner. ISBN 978-0-330-49233-1. OCLC 50527720.
Hochschild, Adam (1998). King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. New York: Mariner Books. p. 221. ISBN 0-330-49233-0.

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Dummett, Mark (24 February 2004). "King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence". BBC. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

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"Belgian king expresses regrets for colonial abuses". BBC News. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

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Jalata, Asafa (March 2013). "Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism and African Underdevelopment: 500 Years of Crimes Against African Peoples". Journal of Pan African Studies. 5 (9). ISSN 0888-6601.

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Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Together with the Sovereigns of Europe, from the Foundation of Their Respective States; the Peerage of England and Great Britain ... Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 38.
Wheeler, Edward (1910). Current Literature, Volume 48. New York: The Current Literature Publishing Company. p. 138.
van Goethem, Herman (2011). Belgium and the Monarchy: From National Independence to National Disintegration. Brussels: ASP nv. pp. 49–53. ISBN 978-9054876984.
Guy Vanthemsche (2012). Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521194211.

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"Lado Enclave". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. 19 July 2011.

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"Burned Leopold II statue removed from Antwerp square". The Brussels Times. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.

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"Brusselse meerderheid vraagt dekolonisering van openbare ruimte". Bruzz (in Dutch). 4 June 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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Picheta, Rob (1 July 2020). "Belgium's King sends 'regrets' to Congo for Leopold II atrocities – but doesn't apologize". CNN. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

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Burno Struys (6 June 2020). "Dit zijn de organisatoren van de Belgische Black Lives Matter-betogingen". De Morgen (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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Matthew G. Stanard, "King Leopold's Bust. A Story of Monuments, Culture, and Memory in Colonial Europe", in: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2011, no. 2, doi:10.1353/cch.2011.0020
Ewans, Sir Martin (2017). European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and its Aftermath. Abingdon, England: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315829173. ISBN 978-1317849070.
Thompson, T. Jack (October 2002). "Light on the Dark Continent: The Photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo Atrocities of the Early Twentieth Century". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 26 (4): 146–9. doi:10.1177/239693930202600401. S2CID 146866987. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

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Phillips, Leigh (22 June 2010). "Ex-commissioner calls Congo's colonial master a 'visionary hero'". EU Observer. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

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"Leopold II". HISTORY CRUNCH – History Articles, Biographies, Infographics, Resources and More. Retrieved 8 May 2024.

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Stanley, Tim (October 2012). "Belgium's Heart of Darkness". History Today. 62 (10): 49. ISSN 0018-2753.

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"Al meer dan 16.000 handtekeningen voor petitie om standbeelden Leopold II uit Brussel weg te nemen, Tommelein wil beeld in Oostende niet verwijderen". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 3 June 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
"Het Debat. Moeten standbeelden van Leopold II en andere bedenkelijke historische figuren verdwijnen uit het straatbeeld?". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 6 June 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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"King Leopold II ruled Congo as a private slave state and brutal legacy is finally acknowledged". 26 June 2020.

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Olusanya, G.O. "Reviewed Work: Affairs of West Africa by E. D. Morel". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Volume 4, No. 4, June 1969. pp. 639–641.

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Sophie Mignon (22 December 2015). "Non, Léopold II n'est pas un génocidaire!" (in French).

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Jean-Luc Bodeux (18 June 2020). "Arlon: pétition et contre-pétition autour de Léopold II". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2020.

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"Leopold II". The Belgian Monarchy. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

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Keating, Dave (9 June 2020). "How Belgium is being forced to confront the bloody legacy of King Leopold II". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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"DEATH OF KING LEOPOLD". Advertiser. 18 December 1909. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

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Teri Schultz (5 June 2020). "Belgians Target Some Royal Monuments In Black Lives Matter Protest". NPR. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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Dargis, Manohla (21 October 2005). "The Horrors of Belgium's Congo". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
Jeremy Harding (20 September 1998). "Into Africa". New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2012. a superb synoptic history of European misdemeanor in central Africa
Michiko Kakutani (1 September 1998). "Genocide With Spin Control". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2012. Hochschild has stitched it together into a vivid, novelistic narrative

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"Pourquoi les opposants à Léopold II continuent-ils à vandaliser les statues de l'ancien Roi ?". RTBF (in French). 6 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
Isabelle Palmitessa (9 June 2020). "L'UMons retire un buste de Léopold II suite à une pétition". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 4 July 2020.

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Thompson, T. Jack (October 2002). "Light on the Dark Continent: The Photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo Atrocities of the Early Twentieth Century". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 26 (4): 146–9. doi:10.1177/239693930202600401. S2CID 146866987. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

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Luc Sante (27 September 1998). "Leopold's Heart of Darkness". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 13 June 2012. 'King Leopold's Ghost' is an absorbing and horrifying account

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Thompson, T. Jack (October 2002). "Light on the Dark Continent: The Photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo Atrocities of the Early Twentieth Century". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 26 (4): 146–9. doi:10.1177/239693930202600401. S2CID 146866987. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

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Vasagar, Jeevan (4 February 2005). "Leopold reigns for a day in Kinshasa". The Guardian.

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"CONGO: Boom in the Jungle". Time. 16 May 1955. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2010.

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Godwin Rapando Murunga (1999). "King Leopold's Ghost (review)". African Studies Quarterly. 3 (2). Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012. King Leopold's Ghost tells the story of the Congo with fresh and critical insights, bringing new analysis to this topic.

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"The 'Leopold II' concession system exported to French Congo with as example the Mpoko Company" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2011.

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Yolan Devriendt (2018). "Belgische koloniale geschiedenis in het katholiek middelbaar onderwijs: vergeten verhaal of kritisch discours?" (PDF) (in Dutch). Ghent University. p. 13. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

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Stengers, Jean. "Critique de Livre de Hochschild" (PDF) (in French).
"Le rapport Casement annoté par A. Schorochoff" (PDF). Royal Union for Overseas Colonies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2007.

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"Controverse over standbeelden van Leopold II: Waarom is de Belgische koning zo omstreden?". VRT (in Dutch). 5 June 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2023.

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Thompson, T. Jack (October 2002). "Light on the Dark Continent: The Photography of Alice Seely Harris and the Congo Atrocities of the Early Twentieth Century". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 26 (4): 146–9. doi:10.1177/239693930202600401. S2CID 146866987. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
"The 'Leopold II' concession system exported to French Congo with as example the Mpoko Company" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
"Le rapport Casement annoté par A. Schorochoff" (PDF). Royal Union for Overseas Colonies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
"CONGO: Boom in the Jungle". Time. 16 May 1955. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
Jeremy Harding (20 September 1998). "Into Africa". New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 September 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2012. a superb synoptic history of European misdemeanor in central Africa
Michiko Kakutani (1 September 1998). "Genocide With Spin Control". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2012. Hochschild has stitched it together into a vivid, novelistic narrative
Godwin Rapando Murunga (1999). "King Leopold's Ghost (review)". African Studies Quarterly. 3 (2). Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012. King Leopold's Ghost tells the story of the Congo with fresh and critical insights, bringing new analysis to this topic.

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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Leopold II.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 461.

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Hochschild, Adam (1998). King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner. ISBN 978-0-330-49233-1. OCLC 50527720.
Jalata, Asafa (March 2013). "Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism and African Underdevelopment: 500 Years of Crimes Against African Peoples". Journal of Pan African Studies. 5 (9). ISSN 0888-6601.
Stanley, Tim (October 2012). "Belgium's Heart of Darkness". History Today. 62 (10): 49. ISSN 0018-2753.
Louis, William Roger; Stengers, Jean (1968). E. D. Morel's History of the Congo Reform Movement. London: Clarendon. pp. 252–57. OCLC 685226763.