Belgian Colonialism

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.
 
How many French people were responsible for their country's colonies? A surprisingly low amount. But do we still talk of the French colonial empire, of the legacy left by France to the post-colonial states?

The only thing that made the Free State different was a difference in how the paperwork was filed.
 
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