I do so love nationalists. Belgian companies and government officials were complicit in the Free State`s horrors. They are at least as responsible as any other people were for their colonial lobbies. It is intellectually dishonet to make such a distinction. All the moreso because the Musee De Congo to this day makes a point of denying Leo`s place in the massacre.
Complete and total non-Belgian here; the two were clearly different.
Were Belgians responsible for the free state? Certainly.
Was Belgium responible? No.
If Obama owned shares in a big company in Kenya would this mean the US had the shares? If David Cameron had a big house in Miami wold this be British territory?
Heads of state are their own people as well as heads of state.