Congo

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  6/25/2022
  

  The Belated Return of Lumumba's Tooth Shows the Tenacity of Colonialism

  "The only reason that can be offered for keeping a man’s tooth for 61 years knowing that it was obtained through torture and murder is that the cruelty is the point. Colonisation was, after all, a projection of power through cruelty, rationalised by pseudo-intellectual arguments about racial superiority and difference."

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  6/8/2022
  

  Belgian King Expresses "Deepest Regrets" for Congo Atrocities

  While calling Belgian colonial rule "unjustifiable and racist" King Philippe did not go so far as to issue an apology. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/9/2020
  

  Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp

  The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-18-17
  

  Harvard’s Maya Jasanoff vists the Congo and discovers people there probably live harder lives than they did 100 years ago when Joseph Conrad was there

  by Maya Jasanoff

  The trip was for a book she’s written, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-24-16
  

  The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: a story of twin tragedies

  by Susan Williams

  For many long years the American atomic project relied on Congolese ore.

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• 1-9-15
  

  Where Did Your New TV Come from? Well, It's Drenched in Congolese Blood.

  by Gregory Kosc and Bradley J. Borougerdi

  Westerners are still profiting from crimes against the Congolese people.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-18-13
  

  Banishing Congo's Ghosts

  by Howard W. French

  How to keep the peace in one of the world's most war-torn countries.

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-21-13
  

  Team on the way to collect Congo war crimes suspect

  NAIROBI, Kenya — American officials on Wednesday said that a team from the International Criminal Court was on its way to Rwanda to collect a war crimes suspect who had turned himself in to the American Embassy and that they were hoping Rwanda would cooperate.Rwanda has indicated that it would not interfere with the transfer of the suspect, Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel commander nicknamed the Terminator, to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, where he has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.