“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

Tom and Dominic set out on their shocking journey into the history of the subjugation of the Congo Free State to the monstrous King Leopold of Belgium.

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By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Nicholas Harris In 1879, shortly before the 1884 Berlin Conference let loose the “scramble for Africa”, King Leopold of Belgium, the most brutal of the colonial ...

The first was her purple sash, also sported by the King: worn by Belgian royalty, it's associated with the Order of Leopold ... a gift from the Belgian government to Princess Astrid of Sweden when she ...

Dear critical reader, tragically, the world has, for the most part, ignored the devastating war in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo .