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this is the royal museum of central africa, a venue that is itself controversial. monument to belgium glory. it is now a focus for reconciliation. this professor is my guide. 0n the walls were written all the names of the so—called belgium pioneers who sacrificed their lives — i put brackets, of course — making the colony leopold ii stronger free state and afterwards the belgium congo without any mention of the african victims. do we know how many congolese died? during four decades, it amounted to have half a million or maybe some million but population decline does not mean, of course, murdering all these people, it means also corporal punishments were given all—round, so there was an extremely hard and inhumane labour regime and a repressive regime that was forced upon the congolese population. this is the legacy that princess esmeralda wrestles with. in belgium, i can tell you, that nobody was learning about the colonial past. there was a lot of lies, a lot of myths and that has to change. the present king, king philippe, has changed. he wrote a letter to presi

this is the royal museum of central africa, a venue that is itself controversial.t to belgium glory. it�*s now a focus for reconciliation. this professor is my guide. 0n the walls were written all the names of the so—called belgium pioneers who sacrificed their lives — i put brackets, of course — making the colony first to leopold ii free state and afterwards, the belgium congo without any mention of the african victims. do we know how many congolese died? during four decades, it amounted to have half a million or maybe some million. but population decline does not mean, of course, murdering all these people. it means also, corporal punishments were given all—round, so there was an extremely hard and inhumane labour regime and a repressive regime that was forced upon the congolese population. this is the legacy that princess esmeralda wrestles with. in belgium, i can tell you that nobody was learning about the colonial past. there was a lot of lies, a lot of myths, and that has to change. the present king, king philippe, has changed. he wrote a letter to president