And with the coming so called new world order aka global governance, this is still going on. Ward Churchill’s work is brilliant. Well researched & referenced facts. A must watch.
In the following presentation, Native American activist Ward Churchill offers ones of the most fascinating explorations of colonization I have ever encountered.
He maintains that indigenous people have an inherent right both to self-determination and to fulfill their duty to manage land and habitat to guarantee the survival of their descendants for seven generations into the future.
With colonization, colonists dispossess a native population of their land for some alternative use.
He explains the concept of “settler colonialism” – giving the Nazi occupation of Europe as the prime example (along with the Israeli colonization of Palestine, the European colonization of North and South America and the English colonization of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).
He also introduces the concept of “false colonization,” which occurs when settlers continue to deprive native peoples of their land and rights despite breaking away from the mother country.
He blames the plight of African…
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All the European powers except landlocked ones engaged in colonization at same stage in their history and all regarded indigenous peoples as inferior to themselves. There were differences in different territories, though. By far the worst was King Leopold of Belgium who in the late 19th century set out to turn the Congo into his personal slave colony, and largely achieved that using brutality that even exceeded that of the Nazis. Shiploads of ivory and rubber made their way to enrich Leopold’s wealth which was spent in Belgium, the Congolese were’t paid. A good book about it is ‘King Leopold’s Ghost’ by Adam Hochschild.
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Thanks for that info. Yes there is an excellent video also on YT on the Belgium rape & pillage. Horrific indeed. Of course they cleverly hid all of that from the records so many Belgians have no idea what happened.
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