1. Belgium:
Low Country, Low Morals

2. This is the symbol of Brussels, the capital of tiny Belgium.

3. This is Marc Dutroux,
another famous Belgian.
He was a child rapist.

4. While some Belgians like to rape children,
others prefer to rape entire countries in Africa.

5. This is Leopold II. He used
to be the King of Belgium.
His colony in Africa, the
Belgian Congo, was his
personal property.

6. = He used forced labor on his rubber plantations and
Belgian officials to collect the severed hands of
Africans to keep them afraid of their masters. =

7. Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art until March 16th.
This is a picture from
Belgian Congo.
You can see it at the
Smithsonian’s National
Museum of African Art
until March 16th.
There’s also a photograph of an African whose hands were
chopped off by the Belgians. The New York Times called
it an example of the “ferocity of Belgian rule in particular.”
(February 14, 2003, Page E44)

8. During World War II,
Belgium collaborated with
the Nazis and sent 25,631
Belgian Jews to their deaths
in concentration camps.
This is an ad for Belgians
to sign up with the Nazis.

9. This is Patrice Lumumba,
and he was the Congo’s
first leader after its
independence from
Belgium was won in
1960.

10. Lumumba made people back
in Brussels nervous.
A document signed by Belgium’s
Minister for Africa, Harold
Aspremont Lynden, said:
"The main objective to pursue,
in the interests of the Congo,
Katanga and Belgium, is clearly
the final elimination of Lumumba."

11. After being kidnapped, Lumumba was assaulted in the presence of Belgian officers and tortured in a villa guarded by Belgian troops, before being shot by an execution squad supervised by a Belgian captain. His body was exhumed by a Belgian police commissioner, Gerard Soete, and dissolved in acid.
(Mr. Soete admitted on Belgian television in 1999 that he had kept two of Lumumba’s teeth.)

12. Unfortunately, in the real world Belgium is hardly
as sweet and lovely as its chocolates.

13. In the area now known as
Rwanda, the Belgians drove
a wedge between the Hutus
and the Tutsis, two tribes they
ruled.
In 1994, the Hutus killed
1,000,000 of the Tutsis the
Belgians taught them to hate.

14. “Belgium's decision to pull out of Rwanda in the early
Here’s the result of
“Belgium's decision to pull
out of Rwanda in the early
days of the genocide - a
decision that consequently
paralyzed the UN operation”
(BBC, 7 June, 2001)

15. In response to the genocide in Rwanda, Israel sent
a team of 400 doctors and peacekeepers to help ease
the suffering in the former Belgian colony.
Belgium recently indicted Israel’s Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, on charges of crimes against humanity.

16. In 1982, when Mr. Sharon was Israel’s Defense Minister, Lebanese Phalangist militiamen allied with Israel entered Palestinian camps at Sabra and Shatila
and killed unarmed refugees.
An independent commission found the Phalangist
militiamen solely responsible for the massacres at
Sabra and Shatila. Not one of the killers has
ever been indicted by Belgium.
No Belgian official has ever been charged with crimes
against humanity in a Belgian court for actions in the
Congo or for allowing the Rwandan genocide to take
place.

17. This is Louis Michel, Belgium’s foreign
Minister, who recently compared Israelis with Nazis.

18. If Nazis and Israelis are so similar,
then why didn’t Belgium prosecute
14 Nazi war criminals who
moved to Belgium after the war,
murderers explicitly named in a
list sent to the Belgian courts back
in 1990?
(Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2003)

19. Let Louis Michel know what you think of his Low Country.
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