February 23rd
more on european 'civilization'.
Belgium confronts its heart of darkness
King Leopold was hailed as a hero for 'civilising' the Congo. Now a remarkable exhibition in Brussels tells the forgotten history of a brutal exploitation that killed millions and shamed a nation
By Michela Wrong
23 February 2005
In the sprawling palace of Tervuren, in a leafy suburb of Brussels, Leopold, King of the Belgians has finally been dethroned. A daunting statue of the hook-nosed monarch has been heaved from centre stage in the royal museum that was his brainchild and built with the proceeds of his African adventure.
The avatar of the former national hero now skulks in a distant corner; in his place are a series of antique black and white photographs of mutilated bodies in turn-of-the-previous-century Congo. One of the stark and disturbing images shows a father from the Nsala tribe contemplating the chopped-off hand and foot of his daughter in front of him. The sepia-tinted horror show is part of "Memory of Congo, The Colonial Era" a remarkable exhibition that has set off a critical re-examination of Belgium's grisly record in its only colonial possession.
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2 comments:
rajiv,
I request you to go through this link
http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/
Briefing%20papers/Diwali/
What%20is%20Diwali.htm
These people have the audacity to write
"Rama married many other women as well, mutilated and tortured women, called his father a fool and an idiot, burnt the Dravidians of Sri Lanka with fire, and, although he was a god, he died by drowning in a river. Despite Rama's incest, polygamy, disrespect, genocide and untimely end"
cant VHP or AHF do something about this kinda things????
I will say Christ is a bastard born to an unmarried woman...will these people stay calm listening to all this????
Well said, my friend.
People perceive our gentle nature for our weakness. It is high time that we showed these christian (and Islamic) buffoons that we Hindus are not going to take things lying down as we have been over the centuries.
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