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Belgium's Congo: The Secret Police Network
In this episode, we peel back the layers of the Belgian colonial administration to examine the Service de Renseignements Coloniaux, or SRC. We look at how Jules De Meulemeester built an intelligence apparatus that monitored not just political dissent but also everyday social movements among the colonized populations in Léopoldville and Kasaï. The conversation explores the creation of the Alliance des Ba-Kongo as a vehicle for control rather than liberation, and the complex legal category of the évolués, who were promised assimilation into European society but often found themselves trapped…
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