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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Hans Van de Cauter
Nu weet ik wel nog niet waar Seba dat getal van 10.000.000 doden in Congo vandaan haalt...
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Hier misschien:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM
Now, we have these estimates:
Britannica, "Congo Free State" claims that the population declined from 20 or 30 million to 8 million.
A 1904 report by Roger Casement's estimated that as many as 3 million Congolese died since 1888 (cited in Gilbert's History of the Twentieth Century; also in Colin Legum, Congo Disaster (1972).
Peter Forbath (The River Congo (1977) claims that at least 5 million killed.
John Gunther (Inside Africa (1953) estimates 5-8 million deaths.
Adam Hochschild (Leopold's Ghost mentioned above) estimates 10 million, or half the original population from 1885 to 1920.
Fredric Wertham, A Sign For Cain: A Exploration of Human Violence (1966) estimates that the population of the Congo dropped from 30M to 8.5M, a loss of 21.5 million.