Leopoldo II, re del Belgio, farà del Congo la sua colonia personale. Le atrocità prodotte dal suo regno sono una pagina tenuta nascosta per molto tempo dalla storia.
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FONTI:
Casement Report su projectgutemberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50573/50573-h/50573-h.htm
Roger Anstey "The Congo Rubber Atrocities" - Boston University 1971
https://www.jstor.org/stable/216268?seq=1
Bruna Bianchi "La gomma è morte"
https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/dipartimenti/DSLCC/documenti/DEP/numeri/n24/Dep_10_Alice_Harris.pdf
Mark Twain "King Leopold's Soliloquy"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62739/62739-h/62739-h.htm
Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's Ghost
https://www.ibs.it/king-leopold-s-ghost-story-libro-inglese-adam-hochschild/e/9781509882205
Caroline Lacroix la "regina del Congo"
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19061227.2.10.1
Articoli
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/leopold-s-lethal-legacy-1.177601
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/13/features11.g22
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/23/belgium-begins-to-face-brutal-colonial-legacy-of-leopold-ii
Le statue di Leopoldo II in Belgio
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/belgium-forced-to-reckon-with-leopolds-legacy-and-its-colonial-past
L'uranio congolese per la bomba di Hiroshima
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mine-that-built-the-atomic-bomb
L'omicidio di Lumumba con la complicità del Belgio, e forse degli USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/world/world-briefing-europe-belgium-apology-for-lumumba-killing.html
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/top06.pdf
La diatriba di "Tintin nel Congo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo
https://theweek.com/articles/502331/censoring-tintin-congo
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-17014127
