Conflict in the Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Documentary Screening

Begins
 20 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
Ends
 20 Feb 2008 - 7:50pm
Location
66 West 12th Street. Room 404

"(a) stunning indictment of Belgium's brutal colonization of the Congo in the late 19th century" - Variety

"a journey into the original heart of darkness..." - New York Daily News

The Belgium government has denouced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II - still a heroic figure in Belgium - as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. This film describes how Leopold turned the Congo into his private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, the Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. In fact, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.

 

 

Part of the Conflict in the Congo Series.

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