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Há 1 dia · On this day 4 August 1914, Belgian newspapers broke the news that German troops had breached the Belgian border and started their invasion. The atrocities that they committed against the Belgian population as they marched across the country came to be known as the Rape of Belgium.
15 de mai. de 2024 · In Belgium, the focal points of the rage were the statues of King Leopold II who presided over the pillaging of Congo’s natural resources and the violent exploitation of its population. The sovereign’s rule was brutal, even by the standards of 19th-century imperialism.
5 de mai. de 2024 · The skull of a Congolese leader, Lusinga Iwa Ng’ombe, who fought back against Belgian colonial invaders in the late 19th century, ended up in a box at the Institute for Natural Sciences in...
29 de abr. de 2024 · Finally, indignation among people in Britain and other parts of Europe grew so great that Leopold was forced to transfer his authority in the Congo to the Belgian government. In 1908 the Congo Free State was abolished and replaced by the Belgian Congo, a colony controlled by the Belgian parliament.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Há 1 dia · Belgian forces took control of Rwanda and Burundi in 1917 during World War I, and from 1926 began a policy of more direct colonial rule. The Belgians modernised the Rwandan economy, but Tutsi supremacy remained, leaving the Hutu disenfranchised.
- 7 April – 15 July 1994
- Rwanda
- Estimated:, 491,000–800,000 (Tutsi only)
Há 3 dias · The California genocide refers to the destruction of individual tribes like the Yuki people during the Round Valley Settler Massacres of 1856–1859, general massacres perpetrated by settlers chasing the gold rush against Indians like the Bloodsland massacre, or Klamath River "War of Extermination" along with the overall decline of the Indian population of California due to disease and ...
Há 2 dias · It took place over 18 days in May 1940 and ended with the German occupation of Belgium following the surrender of the Belgian Army . On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium under the operational plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow).
