Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, as the country’s current king expressed his “deepest ...

KENZO TRIBOUILLARD // Getty Images. Update, June 10, 2020: A 50-year-old statue of King Leopold II was removed from a public square in Antwerp. ... but the skin color of the victims.

Campaigners want statues of King Leopold II, who killed millions in Central Africa, to be removed. ... This TV image shows a statue of Leopold defaced and damaged by fire being removed in Antwerp.

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

King Leopold II statue Thierry Monasse / Getty Images Since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May – who died after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine ...