TheCongoFreeState propaganda war was a worldwide media propaganda campaign waged by both King Leopold II of Belgium and the critics of theCongo Free...
Congo Genocide may refer to: Atrocities intheCongoFreeState (1885–1908) Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996–1997) Effacer le tableau...
up Congo or Kongo in Wiktionary, thefree dictionary. Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river...
caused the country's depopulation. European and U.S. press agencies exposed the conditions intheCongoFreeState to the public in 1900. By 1908 public...
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...
Between the years of 1885 and 1908, many Swedish soldiers would aid king Leopold II in his colonization of theCongo attracted by better pay and opportunities...
The Force Publique (French: [fɔʁs pyblik], "Public Force"; Dutch: Openbare Weermacht) was the military of theCongoFreeState and the Belgian Congo from...
ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo List of colonial governors of theCongoFreeState and Belgian Congo Previously named Joseph-Désiré Mobutu;...
Internationale Africaine (1877–1885), theCongoFreeState (1885–1908), and the Belgian Congo (1908–1960) Flag of Congo-Léopoldville from independence 30...
TheCongo Reform Association (CRA) was a political and humanitarian activist group that sought to promote reform of theCongoFreeState, a private territory...
– known as the Belgian Congo. The colony was founded in1908 following the transfer of sovereignty from theCongoFreeState, which was the personal property...
fighter—detailing abuses intheCongoFreeState which was under the private ownership of King Leopold II of Belgium. This report was instrumental in Leopold finally...
The following lists events that happened during 1906 intheCongoFreeState. King – Leopold II of Belgium Governor-general – Théophile Wahis Congo Free...
empire. List of wars inthe Low Countries until 1560 – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium until 1560. List of wars inthe southern Low Countries...
the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of theCongoFreeState from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second...
Kingdom) and took over theFreeState from King Leopold II. On 18 October 1908, the Belgian parliament voted in favour of annexing theCongo as a Belgian colony...