KING LEOPOLD DENIES CHARGES AGAINST HIM; ... King Leopold of Belgium denied categorically the reports which have been circulated so widely of atrocities practiced in the Congo.

LEOPOLD THE UNLOVED—Ludwig Bauer —Little, Brown ($3.50). To readers now over 50, the name of Leopold II of Belgium on the cover of a book will connote one thing—the Congo atrocities. They ...

The horrific atrocities that took place in the Congo Free State are often compared to the Holocaust, with king Leopold II of Belgium being compared to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Between 1885 ...

During the 23 years from 1885 to 1908 that Congo was the personal fiefdom of King Leopold — it belonged to the king, not to Belgium — an estimated 10 million Africans died, worked to death ...

International outrage grew, and Leopold was forced to step away from the Congo Free State in 1908. Alice Seeley Harris. John was knighted in 1933 for his role in exposing the abuse, but Alice’s ...

King Leopold II ruled Congo as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of rubber and minerals during a genocide that killed millions Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

A British artist has been blocked from “reinterpreting” a controversial statue of a colonial Belgian king. Brixton-based ...

Belgian King Leopold II established his country as a colonial power in Africa and is known for the widespread atrocities committed under his rule, resulting in over 10 million people in the Congo ...

“I read statistics that 8 million people died in Leopold’s atrocities in the Congo, and I read other stats that the Congo’s total population was 11 million at the time.

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.