An employee helps to remove the vandalized statue of King Leopold II in Ghent, Belgium. Getty Images Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held ...

Update, June 10, 2020: A 50-year-old statue of King Leopold II was removed from a public square ... The difference is not the size of the horror, but the skin color of the victims.

Some time ago, I wrote a book about one of the great crimes of the last 150 years: the conquest and exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium ... as well as color, animated as ...

Leopold II's nephew King Albert I erected statues to remember the successes of years gone by. This makeover of Leopold's image produced an amnesia that persisted for decades. The current protests ...

Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside ... one of these gilded images, which are talking about ...

Elsewhere in Europe, statues of King Leopold II have become a source of heated contention ... The difference is not the size of the horror, but the skin color of the victims. You have to change the ...

BRUSSELS — For nearly a century, a statue of Belgian King Léopold II has stood sentinel in front ... Léopold’s name and image are omnipresent in the Belgian capital, from the proud statues ...

Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the largest and most horrid legacy of all. King Leopold II left arguably ...