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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
07 Feb 2005 03:55:21 AM |
| Object: |
OT: Belgium |
World watch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1407207,00.html
Ian Black
Monday February 7, 2005
The Guardian
Poor old Leopold III The king of the Belgians underwent one of the
shortest political rehabilitations on record last week, hoisted back on
to his plinth - horse, enormous spade-shaped beard and all - in the
Congolese capital, Kinshasha (Leopoldville until independence in 1960),
only to be sent back again to the dust heap of history a few hours
later.
It was strange, observed one passerby, when statues of tyrants were
being toppled elsewhere, to see the unannounced return - in now
tarnished bronze - of the lugubrious monarch who is still remembered as
the cruellest face of European colonialism in Africa.
Ian Black
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/06394d9ef828ba61
Congo
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c9fc9f8bd2c0b93
Belgium Belgian Belgians
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Leopold (III OR King)
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Adam Hochschild
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