The Congo Genocide: The Silent Mass Murder

“Genocide is a crime under international law” as reported by the United Nations December 9 1948. However, repeatedly throughout history, the international government has neglected the needs of the dying and helpless and only after the calamity reached seismic proportions did the government act against the terrorists. The Congo Genocide, the silent mass murder, is one of the most atrocious, violent acts of history and the majority of the American population is ignorant of the terrors inflicted upon the indigenous peoples by King Leopold II., who was rewarded for his crimes against humanity. Ten Million people were killed by the brutal exploitation
The parallels between the past and future genocides from that time period are apparent when looking towards the warning signs of the tragedy, similar to the mannerisms of a seismologist predicting a future earthquake. While genocide is still seen as barbaric, the ethnically extremist ideal of overall superiority is still in effect, proven by a recent Canadian professor, John Philippe Rushton, who attempted to prove black inferiority by comparing brain sizes between races and strived to validate his own bias against black people. Similar to the American South during the slavery time period, the Belgians instituted curfews and racially segregated areas, in which the natives could not enter. Hitler’s fraudulent basis for oppression was indistinguishable from King Leopold II’s pseudo-association preaching philosophical and scientific expansion. The Belgians also dehumanized the Congolese people resembling the Rwandan genocide demonizing the Tutsi people. Westward Expansion, another false pretense, displaced and killed natives similar to Belgian imperialism’s destruction of native culture. These similarities suggest that there are patterns doomed to repeat themselves, fated to continue while the deaths of the many outweigh our