King Leopold of Belgium killed 10-15 million people in Congo.......yet the west doesnt consider it a genocide
Genocide scholar Adam Jones comments, “
The result was one of the most brutal and all-encompassing corvée institutions the world has known . . . Male rubber tappers and porters were mercilessly exploited and driven to death.”[6]
Leopold's agents held the wives and children of these men hostage until they returned with their rubber quota.[5] Those who refused or failed to supply enough rubber often had their villages burned down, children murdered, and their hands cut off.[1,3]"
To prove the success of their patrols, soldiers were ordered to cut off and bring back dead victims’ right hands as proof that they had not wasted their bullets.[3]
If their shots missed their targets or if they used cartridges on big game, soldiers would cut off the hands of the living and wounded to meet their quotas.[3]
“Everywhere I hear the same news of the Congo Free State –
rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form.” This account was published in
Century Magazine (1897) by E. J. Glave, a former CFS administrator
http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/belgian_congo/
Yet it isnt even called a genocide or even taught in schools.
We know everything about the holocaust tho, and hear about it endlessly
) after these killings made an international scandal.
