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The Congo Reform Movement: Belgium's Great Moral Awakening
In this episode of The History of Belgium, Lucas and Luna explore the Congo Reform Movement, a pivotal chapter in Belgian history that followed the horrors of Leopold II's Congo Free State. They discuss the courageous figures who exposed the atrocities, including Edmund Dene Morel, a British shipping clerk who noticed suspicious cargo patterns, and Roger Casement, whose 1904 report documented systematic violence against Congolese workers. The conversation delves into the role of the Congo Reform Association in building an international human rights campaign, and the eventual handover of…
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