25 april 2011, 07:58
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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Jantje
Steeds word zowel door de Afrikaanse opstandeling als door Europese arbeider vergeten dat de bevolkingen in de Koloniën het vaak beter hadden dan de arbeiders in de thuislanden van de bezetters.
Neem enkel al Congo, waar de arbeiders recht hadden om een minimum aan voedels en een minimum leeftijd moesten bereikt hebben voor ze mochten ingezet worden, terwijl de arbeiders in België geen enkele bescherming hadden en waar meer kinderen stierven in de fabrieken bij ongevallen dan er kinderen stierven van honger in Congo.
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Weer geen referenties voor een opmerkelijk leugenachtige post Jantje. In de thuislanden was geen slavernij.
Het enige dat nog opgemerkt moet worden over de terreur die Leopold's Belgische rubbermaatschappij uitoefende in Congo, met als gevolg o.a. tien duizenden vluchtelingen en tien miljoen doden door honger en geweld is dat Duitse en Franse rubbermaatschappijen net zo wreed waren.
Citaat:
The Butcher of Congo
Leopold's "rubber terror" raised a lot of hairs in Britain, America and continental Europe (particularly between the years 1900-1908). But while they were condemning Leopold's barbarity, his accusers were committing much the same atrocities against Africans elsewhere on the continent.
Hochschild tells it better: "True, with a population loss estimated at 10 million people, what happened in the Congo could reasonably be called the most murderous part of the European Scramble for Africa. But that is so only if you look at sub-Saharan Africa as the arbitrary checkerboard formed by colonial boundaries.
"With a decade of [Leopold's] head start [in the Congo], similar forced labour systems for extracting rubber were in place in the French territories west and north of the Congo River, in Portuguese-ruled Angola, and in the nearby Cameroon under the Germans.
"In France's equatorial African territories, where the region's history is best documented, the amount of rubber-bearing land was far less than what Leopold controlled, but the rape was just as brutal. Almost all exploitable land was divided among concession companies. Forced labour, hostages, slave chains, starving porters, burned villages, paramilitary company 'sentries', and the chicotte were the order of the day. [The chicotte was a vicous whip made out of raw, sun-dried hippopotamus hide, cut into a long sharp-edged cork-screw strip. It was applied to bare buttocks, and left permanent scars. Twenty strokes of it sent victims into unconsciousness; and a 100 or more strokes were often fatal. The chicotte was freely used by both Leopold's men and the French].
"Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold's regime eventually fled back to escape the French [in Congo-Brazzaville]. The population loss in the rubber-rich equatorial rainforest owned by France is estimated, just as in Leopold's Congo, at roughly 50%."
Hochschild cannot fathom how the reform movement in Europe focused exclusively on Leopold's Congo when "if you reckon [the] mass murder by the percentage of the population killed", the Germans did as much in Namibia, if not worse, than Leopold in Congo.
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Laatst gewijzigd door Piero : 25 april 2011 om 07:59.
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