Watch as a 150-year-old statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, whose forces seized Congo in the late 19th century and ran an exploitative regime that led to the deaths of millions, was removed from a public square in Antwerp on Tuesday. Read more. https://nyti.ms/2AUpsDn | The New York Times

🔥 After being set on fire, this statue of Leopold II in Antwerp, Belgium is finally being taken down!⁣ ⁣ The nation has so many more monuments to this monster to take down. Few people in the entire history of the world were as vicious and violent to Africans as this man. He slaughtered at least 15 million Africans in the Congo. Some estimates are as high as 30 million. It was literally one of the most brutal moments in the history of the world. ⁣ ⁣ He pillaged then people and the land and the r