The National Liberation Struggle in South Africa: A Case Study of the United Democratic Front, 1983-1987 Book

Colonialism in Congo, barbarism authentically Belgian!

This is a pamphlet written by Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame), about the atrocities committed by concessionaries who exploited Congo with the aid of military assistance from King Leopold of Belgium and with the blessings of the Catholic church which provided the cover of 'converting the savages to good Christians'!

This pamphlet narrates how the concessionaries separated men, women and children from their families and sent them away to live in makeshift shelters, living on little food, to collect Rubber/Latex. If they did not return with expected quantity of rubber, they were mercilessly shot and sometimes to save the limited supply of gun-powder cartridges, even the women and children had their hands amputated mercilessly.

Apparently the museum in Brussels contains documented evidence of some of these atrocities. Some knowledge will leave you changed forever. The German death camps in Namibia(long before Nazis came to power), and the Belgian horrors in Congo are such and truly horrific events. History is definitely not a tale of morality, as Christopher Hitchens said...