TELLS OF ATROCITIES IN BELGIAN CONGO; Natives' Hands Cut Off, Dr. Leslie Says, to Force Them to Bring in Rubber. 17 YEARS A MISSIONARY Home for First Time with Baby Son, Who Speaks Only the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda . The word “lazy” still terrorizes 84-year-old Simon Mivuya when he recalls his grandfather, whose hands were chopped off by a Belgian rubber trader during the dark colonial ...

BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth. 5 minute read. TIME. June 27, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... may be in for severe revision at the hands of the tribalists. In the Congo itself, ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, ...

In 1885, when King Leopold II of Belgium first claimed ownership of this massive stretch of land sitting on the world’s deepest river, smack in the center of Africa, he called it Congo Free ...

So when Belgian King Philippe briefed reporters about his first visit to the country, he clutched a bottle of anti-mosquito spray in his hands — almost as a reminder that he too was a human being made ...